From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 19:14:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.sover.net (pike.sover.net [209.198.87.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB81159B1 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adams@digitalspark.net) Received: from nightfall.digitalspark.net (arc0a68.bf.sover.net [209.198.85.68]) by pike.sover.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09481 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:13:23 -0400 (EDT) Comments: SoVerNet Verification (on pike.sover.net) nightfall.digitalspark.net from arc0a68.bf.sover.net [209.198.85.68] 209.198.85.68 Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:13:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:17:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam Strohl To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed In-Reply-To: <37F2BA3C.D54CC74B@acm.org> 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, Jim Bloom wrote: > I believe this must be fixed. At some point in time, there is going to be > another change to the kernel such that some older version of the code cannot run > on a new kernel. I believe this situation has occurred before. This will lead > to a situation where a new kernel is required before the build and a new build > is required before the new kernel is installed. We cannot have this paradox. FTPing a GENERIC kernel from somewhere would solve this, then just single user the box, make world. Build your kernel. Reboot. I have to side with the people who say that this being a problem for someone means that person shouldn't be running -current. Furthermore, for when 4.0 becomes a -R or -S, ftping in a compiled kernel shouldn't be that hard of a price to pay for going from 3.2. /stand/sysinstall based upgrades could easily seemlessly take care of this, too. I'm sure people are working on a fix for having to do this, but doing it just isn't this big of a deal. Maybe I'm missing something. - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message