From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 22:45:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D94916A4CF for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:45:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2023843D2D for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:45:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7B17A508; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40F5B7A3.4070605@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:45:55 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk Strauser References: <26075.1089753893@critter.freebsd.dk> <200407141441.23158.kirk@strauser.com> <200407141704.07142.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200407141704.07142.kirk@strauser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:45:56 -0000 Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Wednesday 2004-07-14 04:14 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > >>Certainly. Let's say the people in one jail are running a special package >>which depends on certain versions of various utilities or library >>versions. And people in a different jail are running a different package >>which has a different set of dependencies. Bingo. These jails must be >>built with different snapshots of the userland. >> >> > >Is running a userspace that doesn't match the loaded kernel a supported >configuration, defined as "one not likely to bite you in the butt"? > > Always follow the golden rule.. "Your kernel must be newer or the same age as everything else running on the system" > >Even if someone wants that setup, surely it's inadvisable for someone to >build a jail that's running a newer version of the OS then the host >environment, isn't it? And wouldn't that be the only reason you'd ever do >"make world DESTDIR=/foo" instead of: > # cvs checkout -r RELENG_4_8_RELEASE ... > > # make buildworld > ... appropriate intermediate steps > # make installworld > # make installworld DESTDIR=/foo > >I don't want to be argumentative, so please don't take it that way. I'm >genuinely interested in the subject and want to know how other people are >maintaining their systems. > >