Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:10:29 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>, Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <20000404141029.D23888@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200004042053.OAA70960@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:53:00PM -0600 References: <38EA0849.F9BC8C4A@thehousleys.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004041007380.41678-100000@home.offwhite.net> <38EA0849.F9BC8C4A@thehousleys.net> <200004042053.OAA70960@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:53:00PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <38EA0849.F9BC8C4A@thehousleys.net> James Housley writes: > : Another question. It mentions that in -CURRENT you can use -j4. Is > : that -CURRENT 5.x or the now -STABLE 4.x and -CURRENT 5.x ? > > It should be safe. However, it is always wise to be conservative when > upgrading a system across major releases and *NOT* try to get fancy. > Most testers of the UPDATING file didn't use -j, and that can lead to > race conditions if things aren't all just so. I think it will just > work, but -j is generally only safe to upgrade within a major > version. I did the 3->4 upgrade with -j and had no problems. On the other hand, conservative is probably good, especialy if you don't read -stable and -current. > And don't try to do an installworld -j n, n > 1. It just isn't worth > it and is a silly risk unless you know that it will definitely work. The last times I've tried installwork with -j it just plain didn't work. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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