From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 14:47:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CCE16A4CF for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:47:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freedombi.com (mmsfarms.com [207.179.98.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687EA43D5E for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:47:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from charles@idealso.com) Received: by freedombi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9A23272893; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:47:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from freedombi.com (localhost [192.168.10.108]) by freedombi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0451E7247A; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:47:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from 207.179.91.96 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user charles); by freedombi.com with HTTP; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:47:42 -0500 (EST) 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> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:47:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Charles Ulrich" To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on freedombi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:47:45 -0000 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