Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:23:08 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RELENG_4 builds on -current Message-ID: <20011026092308.B54311@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20011025221011.E97313@shell.gsinet.sittig.org>; from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:10:11PM %2B0200 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>
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--H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:10:11PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 18:27 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > >=20 > > At timing solutions, we build all our products in a chroot jail. [...] > >=20 > > We don't build RELEASES in the chroot. We build a system (make world > > DESTDIR=3Dxxx outside of the chroot) that we then use to build the > > system (inside the chroot). >=20 > 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? :> Things which still rely on libkvm don't work in the jail if it's different than the host version. Under -current there are many more things which use sysctls to obtain their data from the kernel, so the problem is getting less severe. Kris --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72Y3sWry0BWjoQKURAimjAJ99Am4VGH4DtZYQ3wO8U2FWVOY8/gCfZmQx jtOA5BTEbc2y2WTK83cNFeM= =R+li -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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