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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:56:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To:        CyberPsychotic <fygrave@krsu.edu.kg>
Cc:        ben@rosengart.com, Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel dies.
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.980716025318.7409B-100000@echonyc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980716122004.17417a-100000@unslaved.freenet.bishkek.su>

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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, CyberPsychotic wrote:

> > The supported procedure is to make world (userland)
> 
> could you please clarify abit, what's meant as "world" in BSD? the set of
> binaries? Some other environment?

World in this case refers to the whole system (/bin and /usr/bin but not
/usr/local/bin, for example).
 
> > and then build your
> > new kernel, if you're upgrading to newer source.  However, if config(8) 
> > hasn't changed, you might be able to get away with building the kernel
> 
> hmm.. The things with kernel stuff (i.g. in what packages it's
> distributed, what actions are supposed to be taken. What are
> directories/files/binaries dependences etc) is still cloudy to me abit, is
> there manual covering such things? I looked thro handbook and some manuals
> with no much related info there.

The kernel is distributed with the rest of the system.  Look at the
section in the handbook about keeping current with ctm or cvsup.

> > only.  Why would you want to, though?
> 
> well, the primary problem is : I have kernel 2.2.1 on some machine
> installed, and when I recompiled kernel there to support firewalling,
> machine started crashing every 15 mins blaming routed daemon in it. For
> one of the solutions I was suggested to upgrade kernel there.

If I were you, I would install cvsup from ports or packages, cvsup to
the latest 2.2.6-stable source, "make world", and rebuild and install my
kernel.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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