From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 13:53:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C77137B8D6 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA93782; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:53:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA70960; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:53:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004042053.OAA70960@harmony.village.org> To: James Housley Subject: Re: make world failed Cc: Brennan W Stehling , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 11:20:41 EDT." <38EA0849.F9BC8C4A@thehousleys.net> References: <38EA0849.F9BC8C4A@thehousleys.net> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:53:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <38EA0849.F9BC8C4A@thehousleys.net> James Housley writes: : Another question. It mentions that in -CURRENT you can use -j4. Is : that -CURRENT 5.x or the now -STABLE 4.x and -CURRENT 5.x ? It should be safe. However, it is always wise to be conservative when upgrading a system across major releases and *NOT* try to get fancy. Most testers of the UPDATING file didn't use -j, and that can lead to race conditions if things aren't all just so. I think it will just work, but -j is generally only safe to upgrade within a major version. And don't try to do an installworld -j n, n > 1. It just isn't worth it and is a silly risk unless you know that it will definitely work. Just inho, of course. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message