CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

[Julian Elischer]

John Baldwin wrote:

>On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:20 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
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>>>You might want to build a jail, for instance, which *looks*
>>>like it is FreeBSD 3.x to the user, even though your machine
>>>is really running the kernel from FreeBSD 4.10.  This is very
>>>useful for some kinds of testing, for instance.  (although for
>>>testing, this is usually done as a plain 'chroot' environment,
>>>and not a full-blown jail...).
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>>I have a jail of FreeBSD 1.1
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>>you need one change in teh kernel to make it work properly
>>(1.1 can't cope with PIDs being > 65535 as they now are)
>>and a new copy of ps and netstat (and the other usual suspects) are
>>required.
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>>but "make buildworld" REALLY flies :-)
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>I thought make buildworld didn't come in to existence until 2.2.5?
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true..
it's "make world" that flies but my fingers finished it off from habit.

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