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From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: binary upgrade vs src 
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	Hmmm, I thought all you really had to do was to update the /etc
with your own settings and compile a new kernel with your own config and
that should work.


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On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> Yes, it's much faster and often the only way to upgrade in a
> reasonable manner.
>
> The down side is that you are installing a generic set of binaries
> built with a GENERIC kernel as opposed to a build for our system.
>
> If I do a binary upgrade, I then try to download the matching sources
> and then re-build the system as I want it. I'm mostly referring to
> changes that result from customizations to the kernel configuration and
> to /etc/make.conf.
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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