From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 14:37:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9356E153EF for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA22718; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:37:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:37:24 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Tom Embt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading/CVSUPping with bad ISP connection In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991028171255.0108f960@mail.embt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Tom Embt wrote: > > I should've known this was coming ;) I had to do this recently on my > -current box following the massive signal changes, however I've not yet > adopted this as standard policy. I guess I've got the old "kernel and > userland should be in sync" idea embedded too far into my head. Well, that > and i don't recall ever having a bad kernel that wasn't My Own Stupid Fault. Build a kernel that won't boot, install a world that won't work with it, and you are SOL. Build a kernel that won't boot, and leave the old world installed, and you just boot kernel.old. > > Is the "kernel before world" philosophy going to become SOP? It looks like it; there are some issues, like needing EGCS to compile a current kernel, which you wouldn't have, coming from 3.x. Regardless, it is still I good idea. DAvid scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message