From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 06:30:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA09355 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 06:30:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mylanders.com (mylanders.com [206.252.160.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09344 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:30:17 GMT (envelope-from nat@mylanders.com) Received: from localhost (nat@localhost) by mylanders.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA03236 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:43:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:43:05 -0500 (CDT) From: John Frader To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Suggestions on patching kernel src In-Reply-To: <353D8ADA.C7C987CA@san.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I take it that it could cause programs to not work properly? John On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Studded wrote: > This question actually belongs on freebsd-questions, please reply there > if needed. > > John Frader wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a machine running 2.2.1 that I want to apply the recent security > > patches to(foof, land etc...) but it seems that the patches are for newer > > src code than is on the machine. I don't want to do a make world incase > > for some reason something went wrong (the machine is in use and is 4 hours > > away) and was wondering if it would go ok to cvsup just a new src tree and > > recompile? > > Never ever ever upgrade just the kernel. This is several times more > important when you are upgrading across version numbers. There is an > excellent tutorial on how to make world, including tips for remote > upgrading. You can find it at http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html. I > upgrade machines remotely all the time, just follow the steps on that > tutorial to the letter and you'll be ok. > > Good luck, > > Doug > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet > *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message