Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:22:39 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, guru@unixarea.de Subject: Re: kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL? Message-ID: <20080704162239.696ab740@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20080704124227.GA10264@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20080704124227.GA10264@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL on one of my > laptops; I've been asked to check if a given driver problem in RELENG_7 is as > well with HEAD... can I update the kernel to HEAD and let the userland > (and all my compiled ports) as 7.0-REL; I know that this is not the > intention, but it would cost me a lot of work if I should compile as > well ~200 ports.... > Theoretically it should work. It's not necessary to overwrite your current kernel. You can do something like this, which is what I do to test kernels. cd /usr/src;make -s installkernel KODIR=/boot/test;cd nextboot -k test reboot This does a one-time start using the test kernel under /boot/test. Your other option is to describe the problem and ask if anyone using 8-current has encountered it. --- Gary Jennejohn
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