From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 01:21:06 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 D90B316A4CE; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:21:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B314743D54; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:21:06 +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 54FD47A424; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40F5DC02.1040906@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:21:06 -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: John Baldwin References: <26075.1089753893@critter.freebsd.dk> <40F5CDCC.8050209@elischer.org> <200407142033.53221.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200407142033.53221.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Kirk Strauser cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: Garance A Drosihn 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: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:21:07 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: >On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:20 pm, Julian Elischer wrote: > > >>Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >> >>>You might want to build a jail, for instance, which *looks* >>>like it is FreeBSD 3.x to the user, even though your machine >>>is really running the kernel from FreeBSD 4.10. This is very >>>useful for some kinds of testing, for instance. (although for >>>testing, this is usually done as a plain 'chroot' environment, >>>and not a full-blown jail...). >>> >>> >>I have a jail of FreeBSD 1.1 >> >>you need one change in teh kernel to make it work properly >>(1.1 can't cope with PIDs being > 65535 as they now are) >>and a new copy of ps and netstat (and the other usual suspects) are >>required. >> >>but "make buildworld" REALLY flies :-) >> >> > >I thought make buildworld didn't come in to existence until 2.2.5? > true.. it's "make world" that flies but my fingers finished it off from habit. > > >