Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:50:17 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Jeff Fulton <jefff@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990511224904.26546B-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <000601be9c18$3b12f980$d9c809c0@ljefff>
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, Jeff Fulton wrote: > I've been running 3.1-release for a while (without problems), but decided > it would be a good idea to starting tracking -STABLE. > > Having only one system, I was trying to be cautious, so I csvup'd into > /cvsup/stable/usr/src rather than stratight into /usr/src. The idea was > that if I mucked things up, I could go back to the /usr/src tree. > > I cvsup'd, did a "make world" which worked fine, and then rebuilt & > installed the kernel (from the ususal spot in /usr/src). > > Now I get the following error from devstat/iostat: > > crypto# iostat > iostat: checkversion: userland devstat version 3 is not the same as the > kernel > checkversion: devstat version 2 > checkversion: you really should know better than to upgrade your > checkversion: userland binaries without upgrading your kernel > crypto# > > Am I right in assuming that this is because I built the kernel in the old > /usr/src tree rather than the cvsup'd tree? Can/should I just rebuild the > kernel in the cvsup tree, or is my idea of two separate trees flawed? *reaching for paddle* *nod*, don't do that. It's VERY important that you keep your kernel and userland "in sync", you should recompile from your cvsup'd sources. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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