From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 14:11:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5BE37BDF0 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15111; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:10:29 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Warner Losh Cc: James Housley , Brennan W Stehling , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <20000404141029.D23888@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <38EA0849.F9BC8C4A@thehousleys.net> <38EA0849.F9BC8C4A@thehousleys.net> <200004042053.OAA70960@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <200004042053.OAA70960@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:53:00PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:53:00PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. I did the 3->4 upgrade with -j and had no problems. On the other hand, conservative is probably good, especialy if you don't read -stable and -current. > 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. The last times I've tried installwork with -j it just plain didn't work. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message