CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

[Julian Elischer]

Kirk Strauser wrote:

>On Wednesday 2004-07-14 04:14 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
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>>Certainly.  Let's say the people in one jail are running a special package
>>which depends on certain versions of various utilities or library
>>versions.  And people in a different jail are running a different package
>>which has a different set of dependencies.  Bingo.  These jails must be
>>built with different snapshots of the userland.
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>Is running a userspace that doesn't match the loaded kernel a supported 
>configuration, defined as "one not likely to bite you in the butt"?
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Always follow the golden rule..
"Your kernel must be newer or the same age as everything else running on 
the system"

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>Even if someone wants that setup, surely it's inadvisable for someone to 
>build a jail that's running a newer version of the OS then the host 
>environment, isn't it?  And wouldn't that be the only reason you'd ever do 
>"make world DESTDIR=/foo" instead of:
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# cvs  checkout  -r RELENG_4_8_RELEASE
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>   # make buildworld
>     ... appropriate intermediate steps
>   # make installworld
>   # make installworld DESTDIR=/foo
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>I don't want to be argumentative, so please don't take it that way.  I'm 
>genuinely interested in the subject and want to know how other people are 
>maintaining their systems.
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