Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 22:06 13/08/2011, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Test Rat
Eduardo Morras nec...@retena.com writes: At 22:06 13/08/2011, Steven Hartland wrote: i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target installkernel, we create a unique

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Test Rat
Test Rat ttse...@gmail.com writes: Eduardo Morras nec...@retena.com writes: At 22:06 13/08/2011, Steven Hartland wrote: i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Aug 14 11, Test Rat wrote: Test Rat ttse...@gmail.com writes: Eduardo Morras nec...@retena.com writes: At 22:06 13/08/2011, Steven Hartland wrote: i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.orgwrote: hi there, i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target installkernel, we create

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.orgwrote: hi there, i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Test Rat
Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.orgwrote: hi there, i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/14/11 3:27 AM, Eduardo Morras wrote: At 22:06 13/08/2011, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-14 Thread Freddie Cash
of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target installkernel, we create a unique directory name for the old kernel? something like /boot/kernel-r${revision}-${/dev/random}? that would let people

[rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-13 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target installkernel, we create a unique directory name for the old kernel? something like /boot/kernel-r${revision

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-13 Thread Chris Rees
On 13 August 2011 20:51, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target installkernel, we create a unique

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Aug 13 11, Chris Rees wrote: On 13 August 2011 20:51, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Aug 13, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target installkernel, we create a unique

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Aug 13 11, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Aug 13, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-13 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the current kernel to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target installkernel, we create a unique directory name

Re: [rfc] replacing /boot/kernel.old with a unique directory name

2011-08-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as the results of target installkernel, we create a unique directory name for the old kernel? something like /boot/kernel-r${revision}-${/dev/random}? that would let people not only boot the previous kernel, but all kernels

Re: kernel.old

1999-05-10 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Chuck Robey wrote ... I was thinking about Peter Wemm's recent change to the kernel Makefile, making a way to install multiple kernels without fragging your last known good kernel, and it got me to thinking, scragging kernel.old, now that we have good kld's, isn't the only way to find

kernel.old

1999-05-09 Thread Chuck Robey
I was thinking about Peter Wemm's recent change to the kernel Makefile, making a way to install multiple kernels without fragging your last known good kernel, and it got me to thinking, scragging kernel.old, now that we have good kld's, isn't the only way to find yourself well and truly screwed

Re: kernel.old

1999-05-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9905091608060.401-100...@picnic.mat.net, Chuck Robe y writes: Something on the order of modules.old is going to need to be implemented. Not to mention /boot/kernel.old.config ... I think you are seeing -current as the norm. You shouldn't. Under -stable the modules

Re: kernel.old

1999-05-09 Thread David O'Brien
Something on the order of modules.old is going to need to be implemented. Not to mention /boot/kernel.old.config ... I think you are seeing -current as the norm. You shouldn't. Under -stable the modules should (tm) continue to work since there are not made API changes in -stable. BUT

Re: kernel.old

1999-05-09 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
I wish :-( It seems that some people think that it is OK to make changes to stable even though those changes break things which used to work. IMHO, branches of the kernel SHOULD be like shared libraries. (It is OK to ADD previously absent features or CORRECT internal errors, but NOT OK to delete