From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 6 16:27: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3874037B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:27:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f270O0n26118; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:24:00 -0800 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:24:00 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Christopher Schulte Cc: Dima Dorfman , "Alexandr A. Listopad" , Harlan Stenn , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nlist failed for top in -STABLE Message-ID: <20010306162400.A25355@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010306102234.A10830@laa.zp.ua> <20010306084507.124F43E0C@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <5.0.2.1.0.20010306181138.04bb7ec0@pop.schulte.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010306181138.04bb7ec0@pop.schulte.org>; from christopher@schulte.org on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:19:02PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:19:02PM -0600, Christopher Schulte wrote: > Is it best to cvsup only if you're prepared to do a full `make world` and= =20 > `make kernel` at the same time to keep userland and kernel both in sync? Yes. > Will I run into problems running a -STABLE kernel with -RELEASE userland= =20 > binaries and libraries? Yes. At best ps and top will break occationaly. Other things like mount may also break is very messy ways (up to and including kernel panics.) Much of this is fixed in -current, but not all of it by any means. In general, don't update your source unless you plan to build and install a new world and kernel. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6pX+fXY6L6fI4GtQRAtStAJ40rnsf4H02rsRKzVxB/p7XQFpO3wCgmvFS 9LJWhhEqFJBgQRAHotEMa2U= =eJWU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message