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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? :)

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Richard Seaman, Jr.           email: dick@tar.com
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