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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:29:44 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Andrey <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newbye question
Message-ID:  <20000117142944.B9255@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001162314490.7288-100000@hairy.animal.usask.ca>; from aam396@mail.usask.ca on Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 11:19:57PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001162314490.7288-100000@hairy.animal.usask.ca>

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-On [20000117 08:00], Andrey (aam396@mail.usask.ca) wrote:
>Is it safe to 'make world' on a recently cvsup-ed current version while
>the system installed (i.e. being upgraded) is 3.4?

I heard from some people, Will Andrews and George Cox, that it isn't
easy.

>Would there be any changes in /dev entries, network configuration
>(i.e. drivers changed) kernel configuration, etc,  that need to be made?

Read /usr/src/UPDATING

>My question does not concern stability and possibility of crashes, but
>rather overall system configuration and possible conflicts with -stable...

Your probably better off installing/upgrading by means of a snap.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai           asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl]
Documentation nutter.          *BSD: Technical excellence at its best...  
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
We must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately...


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