From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 15 0:14:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.185.254.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 167AC37B416 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 00:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25896 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 08:14:21 -0000 Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.185.254.11) by ns2.alphaque.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 08:14:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (gkdwycgw3kntkget@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAF8DVD01835; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:13:31 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:13:31 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw fails between 10/17 and 11/6 In-Reply-To: <20011114235755.A60439@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Stop right there; the only supported way to rebuild your source tree > is to make buildworld. In this instance, there were header changes ok, so the only fix is a buildworld/installworld combo. was hoping to avoid that, but i guess if it needs to be done, it's gotta be done. > > i know this sounds like a classic case of mismatch between userland and > > kernel > > No, that would produce a runtime failure, not a compile failure. it was a runtime failure which sparked off this whole thing, new kernal and older ipfw binary coredumping. > Not relevant; when headers change, they change, and you have to > recompile code against the new version, not the old (i.e. by doing a i understand that, but was sort of moaning that the headers have changed midstream within a point release, instead of being committed against the next point release. it's a minor bitch. but thanks for the pointers anyways all, i'm off to go build world. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message