Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:03:00 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src? Message-ID: <16830.29700.666581.429946@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <41BE66CA.9060000@nbritton.org> References: <41BE66CA.9060000@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton writes: > Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make > world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, > i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? As a general rule, this is _never_ safe. Unless you're prepared to locate and understand all the changes - just bite the bullet and make world. (This is not to say you can't do it and have it work - been there, done that - but you're definitely increasing the odds of a problem.) Robert Huff
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