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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.

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Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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