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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 01:28:56 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, dan@freebsddiary.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world fails : file exists
Message-ID:  <v04220801b589745bc1d1@[10.0.1.2]>
In-Reply-To: <39638C57.B601B64@3-cities.com>
References:  <3964337F.8996.2333AB@localhost> <39638C57.B601B64@3-cities.com>

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At 12:28 PM -0700 2000/7/5, Kent Stewart wrote:

>  That takes care of original files with permission problems. I don't do
>  make world's. I read where that was a good way to ruin your universe
>  and started doing buildworlds, creating and installing the kernel,
>  rebooting to single user mode to do the installworld. The way it was
>  explained to me was that left you with your original world via
>  /kernel.old in case something happened.

	Hmm.  Don't you have to make the kernel with different options, 
if you haven't done an installworld yet?  Otherwise, how do you get 
it to recognize the new libraries and other objects that have been 
built with the new sources, but haven't been installed yet?


	Also, if an installworld dies in the middle, you'll have an old 
kernel that may be partially compatible with some parts, and a new 
kernel that will be partially compatible with some parts, but either 
way you may have significant breakage.

	Has anyone figured out what the odds of this are, and compared 
the potential against doing a buildworld/installworld first and then 
following that by re-making and installing the new kernel?


	Thanks!

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