Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 01:29:27 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John De Boskey <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade instructions are incorrect Message-ID: <p05111702b9122bcd3842@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020522160253.GD55670@sunbay.com> References: <20020522160253.GD55670@sunbay.com>
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At 7:02 PM +0300 5/22/02, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >The upgrade instructions found in src/UPDATING and src/Makefile.inc1 >are not quite correct. Suggesting to reboot with the new kernel >and non-matching userland is safer than opposite of course, but >does not always work nor guaranteed to work at all. If you only boot into single-user mode (so you're not running all the daemons), then what programs would not work? So far I have never run into any problems. I should admit I'm generally less than a month "out-of-date" when I do a new buildworld, so not all that much has changed. I know that programs like 'ps' or 'top' will produce the wrong results, of course, but I would not expect any catastrophic problems should happen. Much more important, to me, is to catch the cases where the new kernel does *not* work, and I definitely have run into those cases. When a problem like that happens, at the time I find out about the it, the only change I have made is to install the new kernel. At that point it is pretty easy to back out of the problem. If I do the installworld before booting up off a new kernel, then I would definitely be in trouble when I realize the new kernel does not work on my hardware. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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