Hello! > > > 1. modified kernels are foobar > > > ..yet are practically mandatory on production systems
> Look around. Every major commercial OS does it just fine. While I agree with much of your reasoning, I know exactly zero people running a modified kernel of any version of Windows, Mac OS X or Solaris, to name just three commercial OS's. And third party drivers (which one could count as "kernel modifications") did fail and will fail sometimes in weird ways even for minor version upgrades/patches. BTDT - Windows Services Packs, Solaris patches, Mac OS X updates, reboot, *boom*, because some hardware suppliers driver didn't adhere to the OS manufacturer's standards or because the latter silently changed something undocumented. While I would appreciate a packaged core system or at least a better definition of "core system" at all, I strongly believe that binary updating a custom kernel is impossible. With "better definition of core system" I mean, if you have a long lived production system that you might have upgraded from 4.x to 5.x to 6.0, you will have a lot of cruft lying on your filesystem that once was part of the "core" and now isn't. And there is no simple and automated way to find out what to delete ... Just some thoughts, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
