Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:53:42 -0400 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update Message-ID: <20050419225342.GA23215@mail.scottro.net> In-Reply-To: <20050419.163254.41695972.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <426447F8.5090209@charter.net> <200504191317.j3JDH76H001458@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050419120053.6ad17df1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20050419.163254.41695972.imp@bsdimp.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:32:54PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > (I don't think this original quote is Warner's, but I lost the poster's name somewhere) > > That being said, I quite often do installworld on running systems because I > > have no way to go to single-user mode. It almost always works well enough > > for my purposes, but I don't want anyone to think that it's "OK" to do this, > > as it's not guaranteed to work, and will most likely result in some programs > > not being updated (such as the examples in the previous paragraphs). > > It usually works well enough most of the time. I do it all the time > on my development machines. The problem is "well enough" and "most of > the time." > > Warner This is why, as I said, I test it on a sacrificial box--that box has almost identical hardware to the remote servers. I'm fortunate to have that setup though. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Anya: Listen, I have this little project I'm working on, and I heard you were the person to ask if... Willow: Yeah, that's me. Reliable dog-geyser-person. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCZYv2+lTVdes0Z9YRAu4XAKCWnpuYcpup0sAJLq0jwMBdsjyfRwCfatUE loSv7s/m8GWjVujZ++XIcQo= =oMwG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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