From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 22 13:34:26 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 D2A0037B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-233-156-170.client.attbi.com [12.233.156.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E65943E3B for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6MKYqvN000414; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:34:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6MKYeHQ000410; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:34:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:34:40 -0700 From: David Schultz To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: Jamie Bowden , Barney Wolff , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world considered harmful Message-ID: <20020722203440.GA357@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , Jamie Bowden , Barney Wolff , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200207220838.50792.bts@babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207220838.50792.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 Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger : > 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.) In the case where you just CVSupped some major changes, you're right. But if all you did is, say, install a security patch to libc, there's nothing wrong with `make world'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message