From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 17:08:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFBE1065675 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:08:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (bsdimp.com [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3148FC28 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:08:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p0EGwEYJ000361 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:58:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Message-ID: <4D3080A6.6010704@bsdimp.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:58:14 -0700 From: Warner Losh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: best way to run -RELEASE and -CURRENT on the same machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:08:54 -0000 On 01/14/2011 03:19, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > My normal work doesn't require -CURRENT but the stuff I need to do > Android development only works on -CURRENT the problem I only have one > machine and want to make it so I can run 8.2-RC1 for most everyday > things but can switch to -CURRENT when I do Android work.... Obviously > I would like to make it so my ports are also build for both machines > everytime I run portmaster (or the equiv)... dual boot or jail or > what?.... note that -CURRENT currently is unusable due to active > refactoring of the interrupt handling and my NIC (ale(4)) causing a > panic when it goes from down to up I'd be tempted to run a -current jail inside of an 8.x base system. That's not supported, but would likely work. An even better idea might be to run a -current system inside a VirtualBox container. This would allow you to run it at full speed, but insulate your primary system if there's bad things going on with -current this week. I do a lot of FreeBSD development inside of VirtualBox. It is quite nice that way. Warner