From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 19:15:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA17042 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 19:15:41 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA17036 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 19:15:39 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id TAA00682; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 19:14:32 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id TAA00210; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 19:16:39 -0700 Message-Id: <199509080216.TAA00210@corbin.Root.COM> To: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: current In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Sep 95 19:55:37 MDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 19:16:34 -0700 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Chuck Robey said: >> To get from there to current, you get the current sources using either >> ctm or sup, then you go into single user and make world. > >Duh. Silly me should have thought of that "single user" business. Meanwhile >when I built a 2.1-STABLE I did it multi-user. Was pretty amazed that it >worked and replaced all my 2.0.5R binaries in the process. And didn't get >caught in any loop. And its been humming right along for 8 days now... I >was real pleased with myself too, until now. > >The Question: am I hosed? _Should_ I re-make world from single user or just >wait for 2.1R? I don't think there is any problem with this. It isn't necessary to shut down to single-user to do the rebuild. If it worked and you aren't having any problems, then you should be fine. -DG