From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 27 19:03:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24888 for current-outgoing; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA24883 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA09590; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:02:23 -0700 (PDT) To: Warner Losh cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About to make the jump to -current... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:36:01 MDT." <199604280136.TAA02941@rover.village.org> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:02:23 -0700 Message-ID: <9588.830656943@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I want to build a -current kernel on a -stable system. Is that a > reasonable thing to do? Will the resulting kernel work with -stable Not as a general rule, no. Things like pstat, w, and other kernel grubbing commands tend to break if something has been changed in the system and you've not also updated your libkvm and friends. > binaries? Will I need to build the config out of -current in order to > configure the kernel, or will the one in -stable be good enough? I can't say for sure given arbitrary values for "A" and "B" here, but it's always a good idea to rebuild config before kernel.. ;-) > Also, if I upgrade to -current, would it be good enought to grab > jordan's next snapshot and just extract all the binaries from it onto > my system and reboot with a -current kernel? Or is there a painless > upgrade option in the snapshot? Yes, you could always just try the snapshot upgrade. That's basically all it does anyway! Jordan