From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 28 13:36:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669BC37B424; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8SKZnU90985; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:35:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Makoto MATSUSHITA , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" of "Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:34:25 PDT." <20000928133425.C90273@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:35:49 -0700 Message-ID: <90981.970173349@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:48:07PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > You should always do a "make release" from a host machine which is > > running the same major revision level of the OS release you're trying > > to generate. > > But even trying to build a 4.1.1 release on a 4.1 release system has the > same problem -- we do not guarantee that a 4.1.1 KLD will work with a 4.1 > kernel. Which is why I also update my release build machines using the latest branch sources before I start a release build. It's simply safer, and I recommend it to anyone building a release since building a release is also one of those "you're expected to know what you are doing" operations. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message