Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 13:00:29 -0500 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com> 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: <19991002130029.E30611@tar.com> In-Reply-To: <199910021645.JAA30398@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <19991002153035.CA7CB1C03@overcee.netplex.com.au> <199910021645.JAA30398@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:45:30AM -0700, 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. > > When did we go wrong and start saying that users should build the world > before building a new kernel? If it was ``I'' that said it, I full > retract any such statement, I was WRONG!. It may have been said in the > patchkit days, or very early FreeBSD 1.x. Unless I'm mistaken, the FreeBSD Tutorial "Upgrading FreeBSD from source" tells you to "make world" before you make and install the kernel. I take it the tutorial is wrong? :) -- Richard Seaman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 414-367-5450 Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 414-367-5852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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