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Date:      Fri, 09 Nov 2001 21:21:28 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: make kernel fails 
Message-ID:  <200111100321.fAA3LSe01009@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>  of "Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:07:23 %2B0200." <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIKENNDNAA.patrick@mip.co.za> 

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"Patrick O'Reilly" writes:
> > From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cristjc@earthlink.net]
> >
> > The kernel was broken for a few hours. Re-cvsup. This has been fixed.
> > --
> 
> Oh?
> 
> damn - on my old 233 that's gonna take a few hours (re-running "make
> buildworld").
> 
> Oh well! - the joys of keeping up to date.

Is _best_ for kernel and world to perfectly mate but realistically the
only time they really do is on -RELEASE. Proof? The recent "oops" when
-stable kernel would no longer compile.

Another case in point: we don't go rebuilding our installed ports every 
time we update our kernel, do we? Ports are not that much different 
than world. Then again there are those parts of world which communicate 
in unique ways with the kernel.

In practical terms if you have already built world then a kernel only a
couple of hours or days newer is probably not going to be a problem.
Watch for HEADSUP on the -stable list. AFAIK -stable kernel would still
work perfectly with 4.4-RELEASE world if not for recent changes in ipfw.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
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