From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 27 18:36:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA23920 for current-outgoing; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 18:36:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23910 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 18:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.7.5/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA02941 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:36:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199604280136.TAA02941@rover.village.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: About to make the jump to -current... Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:36:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a couple of questions about -current. Since it takes me about 15 hours to do a checkout, make world, make install, reboot with the new kernel, etc, etc. I was wondering if I could get my feet wet a little more slowly. I want to build a -current kernel on a -stable system. Is that a reasonable thing to do? Will the resulting kernel work with -stable binaries? Will I need to build the config out of -current in order to configure the kernel, or will the one in -stable be good enough? Also, if I upgrade to -current, would it be good enought to grab jordan's next snapshot and just extract all the binaries from it onto my system and reboot with a -current kernel? Or is there a painless upgrade option in the snapshot? Thank you for your reply... Warner