Re: print HEADSUP at installworld time? (was: HEADSUP gconcat(8) and gstripe(8) users!)

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:07:55 +0200
Matthias Andree <ma_at_dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:

> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > +> I wonder if "make installworld" should display such warnings (or
> > head+> /usr/src/UPDATING FWIW) and give the user a chance to abort
> > the+> installation.
> >
> > First of all, I don't think there are many gstripe/gconcat users out
> > there.
> >
> > Gstripe as well as gconcat was introduced after 5.2.1 - there was no
> > FreeBSD release with this code.
> >
> > That's why I think this is not necessary, this is -CURRENT and user
> > can always fix his /etc/fstab on boot.
> 
> OK, not for gstripe/gconcat then, but I'm wondering if a mechanism to
> print such announcements would generally be useful. Changing subject.
> 

Why? Users should read UPDATING before upgrading.