Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:50:06 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "R. David Murray" <bitz@bitdance.com>, Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>, "Corey G." <cgaff@flashcom.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for change of /usr/src/UPDATING (was: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels) Message-ID: <39887B6E.6F8FDC82@cup.hp.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008021356270.26800-100000@twirl.bitdance.com> <200008021811.MAA93107@harmony.village.org> <20000802202322.A34761@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > Marcel's changes mean that you the tools you use to install the world > are ones that you can run with the old kernel. However, once they're > installed, you may not be able to run the new binaries with the old > kernel. In all, you "should" boot the kernel, and you "might" get away > with not doing it, but "you're on your own" if you mess up. This is correct. The change allows us to have a single 'upgrade' target that builds the world, builds the kernel, installs the kernel, installs the world, perform various other upgrades and finally end with a reboot (not necessarily in this exact order, although ending with a reboot seems kind of mandatory :-) The advantage of the change is also that it allows installworld to be run with -j > 1. We now simply never run what we install and thus avoid race conditions... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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