Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: how to avoid bullets in the feet (was Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909292048250.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <19990930012053.A27137@foobar.franken.de>
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What's really needed is some warning sort of like what we did when the AOUT->ELF convertion happened, there has to be a simple way to test this as part of installworld. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Harold Gutch wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:29PM -0700, Doug wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Harold Gutch wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > If I understand correctly, it only needs to be done once per system, but > > > it makes no difference whether it happens on a given system now or six > > > months from now. > > > > Yes, if I understand Marcel correctly from this moment forward > > everyone who upgrades from any version of freebsd prior to today's > > -current will have to build the kernel first. > > > Uhm, that's the way I see it being _right now_ as well. What I > was thinking of, was that things would go smoother if you > wouldn't upgrade _right now_, but in [insert some time in the > near future here], as things would perhaps be "fixed" by then. > And yes, I'm thinking of an upgrade from the "classical > kernel/userland" to the "new one", e.g. an upgrade from last > week's kernel and userland to the one in two months time. > > Perhaps I silently just expected too much :). > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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