From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 17:56:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 484E437B69C for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01116; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:25:58 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:25:57 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Andrzej Bialecki Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Cc: "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" , Matthew Dillon , Richard Wackerbarth , Alok Dhir , "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Brandon D. Valentine" , Paul Richards Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message