From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 3 10:48:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA00557 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:48:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA00539 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03300; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd003285; Fri Oct 3 17:39:54 1997 Message-ID: <34352DAD.ABD322C@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 10:38:53 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: Invis , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much work does running -current take? References: <199710031410.XAA00752@word.smith.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > 1. If I install -current, will I have to do 'make worlds' or other 6 hour CPU > > tasks often? > > You won't have to. You may want to. > > > 2. Will my system more often than not be able to boot and run most of the time? > > i.e. I have one computer, I don't mind constant reboots, even making my own > > code patches if necessary, but if this is something it's almost necessary > > to have two machines for, please tell me! > > It can be helpful to have two systems, but things are generally better > now than they were in terms of re-bootstrapping yourself. the problem is that new binaries cannot run on old machines because there is a new system call so everything falls over especially /bin/sh so you can't even boot on your old kernel if something goes wrong witf the new one.