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? Message-ID: <1791.207.179.91.96.1103122062.squirrel@207.179.91.96> In-Reply-To: <41BF6092.80605@daleco.biz> References: <41BE66CA.9060000@nbritton.org> <16830.29700.666581.429946@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <45619.24.11.146.21.1103033896.squirrel@24.11.146.21> <41BF6092.80605@daleco.biz>
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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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