From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 15:53:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 916F837B405 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (h000.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39F2E43F13 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:53:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from caffeine@directvinternet.com) Received: (cpmta 20129 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2003 15:53:48 -0800 Received: from 65.187.59.153 (HELO winbox1) by smtp.directvinternet.com (209.228.33.228) with SMTP; 9 Jan 2003 15:53:48 -0800 X-Sent: 9 Jan 2003 23:53:48 GMT Message-ID: <069b01c2b83a$192a1f00$6601a8c0@crotchett.com> From: "Darren" To: "Toomas Aas" , References: <200301091819.h09IJ0n03072@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Subject: Re: kernel won't compile Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:51:58 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What did you download with cvsup? The system sources or the ports tree? Here's what I have in cvsupfile (I'm fuzzy on what is actually going on). I just noticed that my default tag=RELENG_4_6. Should that be 4_7? I don't know where I got my supfile. I'm thinking it was part of the installation. *default host=cvsup12.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_4_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-base src-bin src-contrib src-etc src-gnu src-include src-lib src-libexec src-release src-secure src-sbin src-share src-sys src-tools src-usrbin src-usrsbin *default tag=. ports-all doc-all > If you indeed downloaded the system sources with cvsup, then just > recompiling the kernel does you no good, since you'll be left with new > kernel and old userland programs, which won't work together (at least > not in usable way). You need to rebuild the entire OS, as described in > the Handbook chapter 21 ("using make world"). Portupgrade has nothing > to do with it. My intentions were to NOT get the kernel sources. I was just trying to stay up to date with the ports that I have installed and any system files that my get security fixes. > This looks like the new kernel was actually compiled but installing it > failed. If you haven't followed the "make world" procedure then the > system has actually protected you from shooting yourself in the foot, > because, as I said, running new kernel with old userland programs is no > good. You need to build the new userland first > OK Thanks for the help, Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message