"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
>
> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > You can easily install a kernel as part of the upgrade process. A
> > complete upgrade would be something like:
> >
> > 1. Verify and/or install cross-compilation tools
> > 2. Build world
> > 3. Build kernel
> > 4. Copy tools that are used by the install process
> > 5. install kernel
> > 6. install world
> > 7. reboot
> >
> > If you install a kernel before installing world, you can easily recover
> > when the install world fails: reboot. The new kernel is capable of
> > running those binaries that got installed before the breakage.
>
> You missed the point. This is -current, right? You do all of the
> above, and then reboot and find out that the new kernel doesn't
> work. What do you do? The default procedure is to boot kernel.old.
You're right. This isn't the right list to discuss this. We're talking
about upgrades, not tracking the bleeding edge.
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