Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal

[Doug White]

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > Read my lips:   *NEVER* do a 'make world' until you've got a new bootable
> > kernel.  You can go back to a 'kernel.old' in 5 seconds.  Undoing a 'make
> > world' because a new kernel doesn't workd is a major drama.
> 
> These folks are 100% correct, some place some where we made a mistake
> and are telling users to do things in the wrong order.  It might have
> even been myself that caused this, I just can't recall when and who
> said to build the world before building the kernel.  But now looking
> at it in hindsight, this is plainly the wrong sequence, and we should
> correct that error as soon as possible.

What happens if we version-bump the kernel conf files so a new version of
config is required?  You'd have to hand-build and install config first.

Or is this what we want?

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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