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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:47:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Charles Ulrich" <charles@idealso.com>
To:        "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. said:
> It's really a question for the programmers, and it's
> likely that whatever they say will include a lot of
> disclaimers and warnings.
>
> I once got kernel and world a lil' out of sync, and
> had things running apparently normally.  However,
> top(1) broken; when I asked the list what was up,
> someone else with experience was able to determine
> the problem immediately.
>
> In short, it's probably not a good idea unless one
> can determine that relatively nothing has changed
> in the source since the other part (kernel or world)
> was built.  Looking at CVS, you don't see much
> completely idle time.  And, unless you are aware
> of every bit of code that might have changed, it's
> impossible (for me, Joe Average) to know what might
> break ....

I'll keep that in mind, then. Thanks!

-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com



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