Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:56:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@iquest.com>, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: current Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950908155504.6345H-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199509080216.TAA00210@corbin.Root.COM>
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On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> said: > >> To get from there to current, you get the current sources using either > >> ctm or sup, then you go into single user and make world. > > > >Duh. Silly me should have thought of that "single user" business. Meanwhile > >when I built a 2.1-STABLE I did it multi-user. Was pretty amazed that it > >worked and replaced all my 2.0.5R binaries in the process. And didn't get > >caught in any loop. And its been humming right along for 8 days now... I > >was real pleased with myself too, until now. > > > >The Question: am I hosed? _Should_ I re-make world from single user or just > >wait for 2.1R? > > I don't think there is any problem with this. It isn't necessary to > shut down to single-user to do the rebuild. If it worked and you aren't > having any problems, then you should be fine. David, when I did this when doing my first make world (while back), it failed during the install phase, because libc was active and couldn't be swapped with the new one. This doesn't occur anymore? Howcome? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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