Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:34:40 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world considered harmful Message-ID: <20020722203440.GA357@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200207220838.50792.bts@babbleon.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10207220440120.47292-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <200207220838.50792.bts@babbleon.org>
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Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>: > On Monday 22 July 2002 07:41 am, Jamie Bowden wrote: > | On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Barney Wolff wrote: > | :When is "make world" the right thing to do? If the answer is "never" > | :then why don't we remove it from /usr/src/Makefile? Its availability > | :just leads people into trouble. > | > | Since when? I use it regularly after CVSupdating /usr/src, works fine. > > It's definately not recommended even if it will sometimes work. > > It causes you to try to start running with the new world while still running > the older kernel. (Or, I guess, you could follow the sequence make kernel, > reboot, make world, mergemaster. That sequence would seem relatively safe, I > guess.) In the case where you just CVSupped some major changes, you're right. But if all you did is, say, install a security patch to libc, there's nothing wrong with `make world'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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