Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-15 Thread Charles Ulrich
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. said: It's really a question for the programmers, and it's likely that whatever they say will include a lot of disclaimers and warnings. I once got kernel and world a lil' out of sync, and had things running apparently normally. However, top(1) broken; when I

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-14 Thread Robert Huff
Charles Ulrich writes: As a general rule, this is _never_ safe. Unless you're prepared to locate and understand all the changes - just bite the bullet and make world. (This is not to say you can't do it and have it work - been there, done that - but you're definitely

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-14 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Charles Ulrich wrote: Robert Huff said: Nikolas Britton writes: Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? As a general rule, this is _never_ safe. Unless you're

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Ben Washington-Yule wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3?

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Charles Ulrich
Robert Huff said: Nikolas Britton writes: Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? As a general rule, this is _never_ safe. Unless you're prepared to locate

Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Robert Huff
Nikolas Britton writes: Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? As a general rule, this is _never_ safe. Unless you're prepared to locate and understand all the

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list