From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 14:18:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBE616A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:18:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freedombi.com (pfpu.com [207.179.98.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F7B43D53 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:18:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from charles@idealso.com) Received: by freedombi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 18F1672854; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:18:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from freedombi.com (localhost [192.168.10.108]) by freedombi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1667247E; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:18:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from 24.11.146.21 (SquirrelMail authenticated user charles); by freedombi.com with HTTP; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:18:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45619.24.11.146.21.1103033896.squirrel@24.11.146.21> In-Reply-To: <16830.29700.666581.429946@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <41BE66CA.9060000@nbritton.org> <16830.29700.666581.429946@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:18:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Charles Ulrich" To: "Robert Huff" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on freedombi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:18:19 -0000 Robert Huff said: > > Nikolas Britton writes: > >> Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make >> world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, >> i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? > > As a general rule, this is _never_ safe. Unless you're > prepared to locate and understand all the changes - just bite the > bullet and make world. > (This is not to say you can't do it and have it work - been > there, done that - but you're definitely increasing the odds of a > problem.) I've been doing the opposite on some of my machines which run stable releases of FreeBSD. Is it relatively safe to build and install a slightly newer world without rebuilding the kernel? -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com