From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 22 8:47:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2739A37B42C for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA59999; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:47:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA04810; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:47:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008221547.JAA04810@harmony.village.org> To: chip@chocobo.cx Subject: Re: Oh the rapture Cc: Brandon Fosdick , kstewart@urx.com, Erich Zigler , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:43:53 EDT." <20000822114353.A32952@setzer.chocobo.cx> References: <20000822114353.A32952@setzer.chocobo.cx> <39A1F0DD.AA954958@urx.com> <20000821215444.A21157@superhero.org> <200008220621.AAA01842@harmony.village.org> <39A29958.2252D81F@glue.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:47:26 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000822114353.A32952@setzer.chocobo.cx> Chip Marshall writes: : I would think that the point of rebooting is to test the new kernel : before installing all the binaries that go with it. Just using : 'shutdown now' to get to single user mode and doing the installworld : before a reboot may leave you with a broken kernel, and going back to : an older kernel may not work in the brave new world. Yes. There was a point in the upgrade sequence when you needed the new kernel to run the binaries used to install the new binaries, but I think that we save them off now so that isn't strictly necessary. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message