From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 30 11:43: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C31637B401 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C99E43E6A for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C64063198FC; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:43:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:43:05 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Brooks Davis Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime Message-ID: <20020830184305.GC11237@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: Brooks Davis , stable@freebsd.org References: <00af01c25054$3024aca0$04fea8c0@motorcity.on.ca> <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:38:23AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:36:43PM -0400, Derek wrote: > > Hello, > > I intend to update the OS source on a primary server for my > > company. If I buildworld, and buildkernel, then drop to single > > and installworld, and installkernel, will the kernel installed be > > the same version as the world newly installed, or will it be the > > version _currently_ installed on the machine? > > It will be installed, but not booted unless you reboot after which is > a very bad idea because if it fails, your world may not work with your > old kernel.. You want to follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. > If you do that, the only time you'll spend in single user mode is > installworld and mergemaster. You should be able to run installworld installkernel and mergemaster in multi-user depending on your securelevel. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message