From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 12:50:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619BB37C1B6 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 617A7668; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id MAA17214; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:50:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39887B6E.6F8FDC82@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:50:06 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Warner Losh , "R. David Murray" , Siegbert Baude , "Corey G." , 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) References: <200008021811.MAA93107@harmony.village.org> <20000802202322.A34761@mithrandr.moria.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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