On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > [an abridged version of the release notes] > > > Thank you Andy, thats more of the recipe I need to follow. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > See, *this* is exactly what I tried to avoid -- giving someone an > inferior version of the release notes, empowering their laziness, > and possibly leading them into a failed state due to skippng some > of the important warnings. > > With a normal system, a shortened version of the upgrade procedure > without the warnings and pre-checks and post-checks might be OK, > but this is *Gene*. We know he does not have normal systems. > > He needs *all* of the warnings. >
I agree with all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink'. -- Tixy