Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:25:57 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, Alok Dhir <adhir@forumone.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Message-ID: <XFMail.000426102557.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004251739190.92416-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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> On a similar note: I think one of serious drawbacks of FreeBSD's model > for > updating and bugfixing the stable branch is 'make world'. It's very > inefficient and cumbersome way to do this on production machines. > STABLE > is stable enough for us to be able to prepare binary patches, which can > be > applied to a system in some (known) version. Especially security fixes, > which are usually limited to specific programs. Try buildworld on one machine and installworld on all of your production boxes.. installworld only takes 10-20 minutes to run on my crappy IDE disks. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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