From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 23:49:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17285 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17263 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:49:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Netplex) with ESMTP id PAA69871; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:48:26 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199901130748.PAA69871@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel O'Connor" cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An ELF upgrade story In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:34:59 +1030." Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:48:24 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: > > On 13-Jan-99 Garrett Wollman wrote: > > First, a bit of disclaimer: > > > > DON'T DO THIS. Really. I mean it. At a minimum, don't expect anyone > > to help you if you try and it doesn't work. > [ Story full of much potential pain ] > > > DON'T ANYONE ELSE TRY THIS. > > Hmm.. looks like you just used up your good luck quota for this year =) :-) Actually, a lot of people can probably get away with doing this, but they need to have enough clue to restart things when/if it blows up. I built a 3.0-elf machine in december by: - install 3.0-snap from earlier this year - moving elf libs to aout subdir and rerunning ldconfig - copying the ELF system binaries from another system (/bin, /usr/lib etc) - cursing and swearing at truncating /usr/lib/aout/libc.so.3.x which tar was using at the time. - moving libs elsewhere to a temporary path and using ldconfig on that. - recopied everything across. Some files failed due to text file busy. - then doing a 'make world' It actually worked. The reason I persivered was that it was a slow machine (486) with a small amount of ram (16MB) compared to what I was used to, and because I needed it in a hurry. The machine has since sat there quite happily for a couple of months and has never been rebooted since. There.. this is the other thing that YOU SHOULD NOT DO! :-) Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message