Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:18:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Charles Ulrich" <charles@idealso.com> To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src? 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>
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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
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