From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 14: 6:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A07C1150F7 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:04:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA33314; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:04:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt014n8c.san.rr.com To: Harold Gutch Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed In-Reply-To: <19990929224847.A26394@foobar.franken.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Harold Gutch wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:55:23AM -0700, Doug wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > I just finished committing the sigset_t changes I worked on for the last > > > 5 weeks. > > > > > > Before attempting to build world, you must make and install a new > > > kernel. The new kernel will contain new syscalls that are needed during > > > build world. doscmd is currently not being build because it needs fixing > > > first. > > > > Is there any way at all that we can change this process so that > > building the kernel first is not required? Those of us involved in > > educating users about the make world process spend a lot of time telling > > them not to do this. It's amazing how long and how tenaciously "one-time" > > exceptions like this stick in their minds. > > > Those users shouldn't track (or run) -CURRENT. My, isn't that a clever solution. Problem is, in N number of months -Current will be -Stable. Not to mention that every time someone has to upgrade from -Stable to -Current from now on (for entirely legitimate reasons) they will have to do this unique procedure. This is really a much bigger problem than people seem to realize (however necessary it may ultimately turn out to be). Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message