Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:45:35 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> To: Jerome Herman <jherman@dichotomia.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making world but no kernel Message-ID: <4E2EA8DF.5090900@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4E2E9F24.1040108@dichotomia.fr> References: <4E2E9F24.1040108@dichotomia.fr>
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On 2011-07-26 13:04, Jerome Herman wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without > upgrading or even compiling the kernel. > > The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that > seems to have quite a lot of problem, notably with fsck. I am starting > to wonder whether this BSD station was properly installed, or if some of > the system tools were pasted from older FreeBSD setup. > Since the machine is in a remote location, I would prefer to avoid full > reinstall if possible. Among other things, single user mode is not > available. > > So I was wondering, if I get the full sources with sysinstall, can I > make buildworld and then installworld without going through the kernel > phase or would this be a bad idea ? If you build world from *exactly* the same sources your currently running kernel was built from, then yes, it should work. That is, if you are not running with kern.securelevel >= 1. If you build world from newer sources, however, all bets are off. It might work, but also fail in various interesting ways. :)
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