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Date:      Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:01:20 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: alternative method for make / install world --- ?
Message-ID:  <200406241201.20740.kirk@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040624041443.5d86b160@localhost>
References:  <20040624041443.5d86b160@localhost>

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On Thursday 2004-06-24 03:14 am, epilogue@allstream.net wrote:

> alias rebuild   'cd /usr/src && make update && make world && make kernel
> && mergemaster'

In the recent past there have been times when non-backward-compatible 
changes were made to userlang tools, but the kernel was updated in such a 
way that it could support both the old and new toolsets.  In those 
situations, doing a "make installworld" (the second half of "make world") 
would replace your userland with tools that were unable to work with the 
current running kernel unless you'd rebooted in the meantime.

The long, correct method takes a bare minimum of additional work over the 
proposed, dangerous method.  What's the point?
-- 
Kirk Strauser



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