From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 10:10:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7012B14CC3 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 29162 invoked from network); 14 Dec 1999 18:10:47 -0000 Received: from userag43.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.132.129) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 1999 18:10:47 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA00690; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:10:44 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:10:43 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -RC tag Message-ID: <19991214181043.A339@marder-1> References: <87iu21g936.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <87iu21g936.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 04:33:49AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > What does 3.4-RC mean? > Release Candidate, what will become 3.4-RELEASE. > I'm following "src-all tag=RELENG_3" via cvsup, and have just rebuilt > my kernel. I see that I now have 3.4-RC at bootup. But I have not > rebuilt any system files yet, so I was wondering if it were dangerous > running a newer kernel without updated system files? > I built a 3.4-RC kernel a few days ago and it's working fine with a 3.3-STABLE (as of 26/9) userland (yeah, yeah, I know you shouldn't do it, but I needed something added to my kernel and didn't have time to build the world). > Thanks, > -- > Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org > "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who > loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message