Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:38:27 +0400 From: "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@itlegion.ru> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Andy Rozman (Aleksander)" <andy@triera.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install world fails, computer almost unusable Message-ID: <001301c41d6e$c701d290$0c00a8c0@artem> References: <hvsu02.reqtnt@webmail.triera.net> <20040407171128.GA74509@xor.obsecurity.org>
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IMHO the upgrade pricedure is unstable and wrong in either case. If you build, install a new kernel and reboot and they make installworld you may face code dumps because all world is not compatible with the new kernel. if yo build, install a new kernel and install world w/o reboot then during installworld one program is substituted with a new one which uses new kernel and make installworld may fail. IMHO this thing must be resolved in the future and it would be nice to do it this way: 1) build kernel and install it into a buffer 2) build workld and install it into a buffer 3) make changes to config files and install new config file into a buffer 4) reboot 5) during reboot load shoud check the install buffer and if there is something in it then copy it into a real working filesystem. This way we will abvoid nonmtaching executables and kernel at any given time. What do you think? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Andy Rozman (Aleksander)" <andy@triera.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:11 PM Subject: Re: Install world fails, computer almost unusable
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