From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 2 13:49:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1504937B417 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:49:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04698; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:49:13 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5C5ED8.3070109@owt.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:49:12 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Michael Scheidell , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems CVS updating from 4.3 to 4.4 and 4.5 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message