Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:19:04 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Ulf Kister <Ulf.Kister@t-online.de>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make buildkernel fails on behalf of config version Message-ID: <20011224111235.P39481-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0112231034520.35760-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Doug White wrote: > Congratulations! You've just discovered that FreeBSD is not like Linux. > You must upgrade your userland and kernel at the same time, or you will > run into things like this that are meant to catch miscreants. > > Hold out your hand. *SLAP* Uh, that might be true in current, but that better not be true about STABLE. Unless there's a note in /usr/src/UPDATING that would apply, one should expect to be able to make a kernel independently from world, even after doing a make update and getting fresher sources. I had to do a time-critical install Wednesday night, so I installed from 4.4-RELEASE floppies, and in /usr/src did a make update && make buildkernel KERNCONF=taz3 && make installkernel KERNCONF=taz3. Had I been forced to also build world it would have added a good two hours to the install process. I made sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING thoroughly to look for any API changes that would have necessitated building world and didn't see any. As it is, I'm worried about the other note I saw on this list about netinet changes that didn't appear to be documented un /usr/src/UPDATING. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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