From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 1 12:50: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3C115362; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:49:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14882; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:49:05 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: Chris Costello Cc: "David O'Brien" , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current build fails In-Reply-To: <19991101080418.B602@holly.calldei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Aren't you enough of a FreeBSD sysadmin to know your previous kernel is > > > available as /kernel.old and that you can specify the kernel used at the > > > boot prompt? > > > > That would work if you were sitting in front of the machines. All > > my machines are over 500 miles away. > > That's the perfect example of how and where not to use > -CURRENT. And your argument could be not to use -STABLE or -RELEASE since both would have the same problems. Like I said before, it's not which version that is run since one can just make a mistake in /etc/rc.conf and the machine would boot in a continous loop and panic. I was just saying running a kernel with new sys tree on a older binary tree might not always work even though we hope to have it that way. There is a difference between make world then new kernel and then reboot then make new kernel and then reboot and then build world and then make another kernel. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message