From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 6:20:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99062155F2 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 06:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA87988; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:07:33 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199910051307.PAA87988@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: my make world is broken ! In-Reply-To: <37F9BD1B.94F78707@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Oct 5, 1999 05:55:55 pm" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:07:33 +0200 (SAT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), jabc@rey.moz.com.mx (Juan Amado Becerril Castillo), current@FreeBSD.ORG (current@FreeBSD.ORG) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > > 3: *always* build (or try to) and install a new kernel before a > > > > make world as that's a lot easier to back out of. > > > > > > This badly bites the bum of anyone who uses KLD's regularly. > > > > 4: Don't use modules in -current unless you know what you are doing. > > This normally means not using modules in -current except for ones > > that you are developing. > > This is not actually relevant. If the procedure becomes first kernel > then world, it will affect -stable sooner or later. Obviously, we > have to deal with it _before_ 4.x becomes -stable. And then there is the stuff in /boot. Although not as big a problem, once in a while it grows a new capabilty which is needed to boot a new kernel, so it probably have to be installed before booting with a new kernel? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message