From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 26 8:46:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E0A37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id AADC014C2E; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:46:39 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: current Subject: Re: RELENG_4 builds on -current References: <20011022142401.A3569@xor.obsecurity.org> <008701c15a9d$0805aec0$0a9811cb@gccs.com.au> <20011022142401.A3569@xor.obsecurity.org> <200110250027.f9P0RB736961@harmony.village.org> <20011025221011.E97313@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 26 Oct 2001 17:46:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20011025221011.E97313@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerhard Sittig writes: > What I've always been wondering since Kris first mentioned this > technique in the thread's course (building -STABLE in a jail on > a -RELEASE host or vice versa, IIUC) was the following: There's > the host's kernel serving a differing world's userland. We all > know what's the usual answer to "I just updated my kernel and > now -- insert whatever you please -- stopped working. :) What > did I miss? Or is it plain luck when things just work and one > shouldn't ask why they do? :> The answer is that the tools used to build world *generally* aren't affected by changes in the kernel. The stuff that usually breaks when your kernel is out of synch (ps, top, ipfw...) isn't needed to build world. Of course, there are exceptions, like trying to run a 4.x or 5.x world on a pre-sigset_t kernel. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message