On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:04:27PM -0700, Doug wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Harold Gutch wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:55:23AM -0700, Doug wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just finished committing the sigset_t changes I worked on for the last
> > > > 5 weeks.
> > > >
> > > > Before attempting to build world, you must make and install a new
> > > > kernel. The new kernel will contain new syscalls that are needed during
> > > > build world. doscmd is currently not being build because it needs fixing
> > > > first.
> > >
> > > Is there any way at all that we can change this process so that
> > > building the kernel first is not required? Those of us involved in
> > > educating users about the make world process spend a lot of time telling
> > > them not to do this. It's amazing how long and how tenaciously "one-time"
> > > exceptions like this stick in their minds.
> > >
> > Those users shouldn't track (or run) -CURRENT.
>
> My, isn't that a clever solution. Problem is, in N number of
> months -Current will be -Stable. Not to mention that every time someone
> has to upgrade from -Stable to -Current from now on (for entirely
> legitimate reasons) they will have to do this unique procedure. This is
> really a much bigger problem than people seem to realize (however
> necessary it may ultimately turn out to be).
>
I interpreted the way of currently handling things (build the
kernel first, then the userland) to be a _temporary_ solution,
that Marcel was working on being fixed. If this is not the case,
then I agree with you.
bye,
Harold
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