From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 16:52:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961BC37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:52:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427E244005 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:52:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D676151A53; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:22:52 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:22:52 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major upgrades and vinum (was Re: Make installworld problem (4.7)) Message-ID: <20030306005252.GL43987@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030305083743.00bcfc80@mail.servplex.com> <3E4A973500003B77@cpfe6.be.tisc.dk> <5.2.0.9.2.20030305114541.00bd5cb8@mail.servplex.com> <15974.15390.589544.775805@guru.mired.org> <87llztppod.fsf_-_@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3xQkynibq3FKlJyM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87llztppod.fsf_-_@strauser.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --3xQkynibq3FKlJyM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 5 March 2003 at 13:40:50 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-05T18:04:14Z, Mike Meyer writes: > >> Since kernels have to support old binaries, but not vice versa, you can >> usually reboot with the new kernel and old world and have it work. > > Sometimes, though you can't. I've found myself in the situation where the > old version of vinum(8) wouldn't run against the new kernel, further > complicated by the fact that the new vinum was in /usr/obj, which is on a > vinum volume. > > This hasn't been a problem in well over a year, but it bit me hard once. Is > there an officially-supported guaranteed-to-work method for handling this? > I've been doing: > > make buildworld > cp /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/vinum/vinum /sbin/vinum.new > ... > > just in case. Is this still a necessary step? Interesting question. I need to think about an elegant way of solving it. In the past we always did a make world before building a kernel, so it wasn't an issue. Certainly it's a good idea to install the new vinum(8) before rebooting. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --3xQkynibq3FKlJyM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ZpvkIubykFB6QiMRAjn5AJ9oVy7WcBaqS0HDzFru2gUxmPpv0QCfQSrI yUh/S+yYNIYds4uFi0hzvCk= =Y1Dk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3xQkynibq3FKlJyM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message