Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:13:01 -0600 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make buildkernel fails on behalf of config version Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011226135014.03758008@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <20011226112916.C2090@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20011226105454.Y92442-100000@localhost> <20011225153309.C136@gohan.cjclark.org> <20011226105454.Y92442-100000@localhost>
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At 11:29 AM 12/26/2001 -0800, Crist J . Clark wrote: >I don't really see many circumstances where it one would be wanting to >make a kernel from newer source, but would not also want to update >world. If you want to change the kernel configuration, use the same >source the world was built with instead of newer source. One comes to mind, since the issue was raised. :-) Security fix of a kernel bug where no userland code was modified for the fix. Now I have to update my kernel source to fix the bug, but it may fail upon reboot if my world is too old and they clash, burn. Manual patches included in an advisory may not cleanly apply to a moving -STABLE target.... and if it's a time sensitive issue I want to cvsup now. The only solution is to take the machine out of service for many hours and build|install world|kernel in sync. >-- >"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." > >Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu >http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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