From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 20:54:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B477C15205 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:54:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40334>; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:47:32 +1000 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:50:20 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed In-reply-to: To: Adam Strohl Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Message-Id: <99Sep30.134732est.40334@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <37F2BA3C.D54CC74B@acm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:17:16AM +1000, Adam Strohl wrote: >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. > >FTPing a GENERIC kernel from somewhere would solve this, then just >single user the box, make world. Build your kernel. Reboot. This assumes that your old world can work correctly with your new kernel (remembering that `make world' is seen as our standard system stress test). The whole justification for the `install the world then upgrade the kernel' approach has been that we _do_not_ guarantee this. >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. We've never required this before. I managed to convert from 2.2.6 to -current using `make upgrade'. Why should I need to FTP a kernel from another machine to go from 3.x to 4.x? Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5982 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message