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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:25:57 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, Alok Dhir <adhir@forumone.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000426102557.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004251739190.92416-100000@mx.webgiro.com>

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>  On a similar note: I think one of serious drawbacks of FreeBSD's model
>  for
>  updating and bugfixing the stable branch is 'make world'. It's very
>  inefficient and cumbersome way to do this on production machines.
>  STABLE
>  is stable enough for us to be able to prepare binary patches, which can
>  be
>  applied to a system in some (known) version. Especially security fixes,
>  which are usually limited to specific programs.

Try buildworld on one machine and installworld on all of your production
boxes.. installworld only takes 10-20 minutes to run on my crappy IDE
disks.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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