From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 22 6:14:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3526637B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2A343E67 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:14:15 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 0DB8ABB34; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:13:53 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Ruben de Groot Subject: Re: make world considered harmful Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:13:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: Jamie Bowden , Barney Wolff , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200207220838.50792.bts@babbleon.org> <20020722150531.A7119@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20020722150531.A7119@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207220913.52802.bts@babbleon.org> 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 On Monday 22 July 2002 09:05 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: | On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:38:50AM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger typed: | > On Monday 22 July 2002 07:41 am, Jamie Bowden wrote: | > | On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Barney Wolff wrote: | > | :When is "make world" the right thing to do? If the answer is "never" | > | :then why don't we remove it from /usr/src/Makefile? Its availability | > | :just leads people into trouble. | > | | > | Since when? I use it regularly after CVSupdating /usr/src, works fine. | > | > It's definately not recommended even if it will sometimes work. | > | > It causes you to try to start running with the new world while still | > running the older kernel. (Or, I guess, you could follow the sequence | > make kernel, reboot, make world, mergemaster. That sequence would seem | > relatively safe, I guess.) | | Save, but not supported. You must buildworld before you can buildkernel. My intuition is that it would be almost certain to fail to compile if it ewere to fail rather than leaving you completely dead in the water. But I always do it per UPDATING: make buildworld make kernel # dunno why UPDATING says to do *this* in two steps reboot (-s) make installworld mergemaster -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message