Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:12:53 +0200 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed Message-ID: <19990929231253.B26394@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909291401330.33311-100000@dt014n8c.san.rr.com>; from Doug on Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:04:27PM -0700 References: <19990929224847.A26394@foobar.franken.de> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909291401330.33311-100000@dt014n8c.san.rr.com>
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On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:04:27PM -0700, Doug wrote: > 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). > I interpreted the way of currently handling things (build the kernel first, then the userland) to be a _temporary_ solution, that Marcel was working on being fixed. If this is not the case, then I agree with you. bye, Harold -- <Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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