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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:39:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910021038440.49531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199910021645.JAA30398@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > Read my lips:   *NEVER* do a 'make world' until you've got a new bootable
> > kernel.  You can go back to a 'kernel.old' in 5 seconds.  Undoing a 'make
> > world' because a new kernel doesn't workd is a major drama.
> 
> These folks are 100% correct, some place some where we made a mistake
> and are telling users to do things in the wrong order.  It might have
> even been myself that caused this, I just can't recall when and who
> said to build the world before building the kernel.  But now looking
> at it in hindsight, this is plainly the wrong sequence, and we should
> correct that error as soon as possible.

What happens if we version-bump the kernel conf files so a new version of
config is required?  You'd have to hand-build and install config first.

Or is this what we want?

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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