Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:35:49 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <90981.970173349@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:34:25 PDT." <20000928133425.C90273@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:48:07PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > You should always do a "make release" from a host machine which is > > running the same major revision level of the OS release you're trying > > to generate. > > But even trying to build a 4.1.1 release on a 4.1 release system has the > same problem -- we do not guarantee that a 4.1.1 KLD will work with a 4.1 > kernel. Which is why I also update my release build machines using the latest branch sources before I start a release build. It's simply safer, and I recommend it to anyone building a release since building a release is also one of those "you're expected to know what you are doing" operations. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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