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Date:      Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:49:12 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Michael Scheidell <scheidell@secnap.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems CVS updating from 4.3 to 4.4 and 4.5
Message-ID:  <3C5C5ED8.3070109@owt.com>
References:  <20020201150521.B15312@xor.obsecurity.org> <200202021940.g12JeIX07649@scanner.secnap.net> <20020202132122.A9009@xor.obsecurity.org> <3C5C5C25.5070903@owt.com> <20020202134340.A9349@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:37:41PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> 
>>I remember switching to shell scripts to do all of this when O'Brien 
>>updated the /binutils during the transition from 4.0 > 4.1. The 
>>consequence of mistyping a script name was immediately apparent where 
>>as, mistyping an option would be found at the end of a bad make session.
>>
>>The sequence of buildworld, build[install]kernel, installworld wasn't 
>>an option when the /binutils were updated. I kind of wonder if the 
>>same thing is going to happen when the /binutils are updated in ~2 
>>months as was commented else where.
>>
> 
> Hang on, I thought that was the exact reason for the introduction of
> buildkernel/installkernel and the point in time when it was
> introduced.


Ah! Bad phrasing on my part. "Wasn't an option" meant it was the only 
choice. There was a race to be the first one to use the new /binutils 
the night he made the changes and I was the first one bitten by the 
old way of doing things. I haven't found any reason to switch since :).

Kent

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