From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 26 9:48:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF3737B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.247.142.186.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.142.186] helo=mindspring.com) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15xA9O-0000aR-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:48:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3BD993FB.F33B5357@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:48:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Gerhard Sittig , 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> <20011026092308.B54311@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 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. You copy the host versions of these programs in, of course. Why do you think my shell script is 10k instead of 1k? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message