Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 12:43:47 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, des@flood.ping.uio.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal Message-ID: <37F5E1E3.829CE59F@scc.nl> References: <199910011936.PAA11014@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <37F52173.8F4B6FF8@scc.nl> <37F5C9F5.6A2BA9AA@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > You can easily install a kernel as part of the upgrade process. A > > complete upgrade would be something like: > > > > 1. Verify and/or install cross-compilation tools > > 2. Build world > > 3. Build kernel > > 4. Copy tools that are used by the install process > > 5. install kernel > > 6. install world > > 7. reboot > > > > If you install a kernel before installing world, you can easily recover > > when the install world fails: reboot. The new kernel is capable of > > running those binaries that got installed before the breakage. > > You missed the point. This is -current, right? You do all of the > above, and then reboot and find out that the new kernel doesn't > work. What do you do? The default procedure is to boot kernel.old. You're right. This isn't the right list to discuss this. We're talking about upgrades, not tracking the bleeding edge. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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