svn commit: r345053 - head
Warner Losh
imp at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 12 06:01:44 UTC 2019
Author: imp
Date: Tue Mar 12 06:01:43 2019
New Revision: 345053
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345053
Log:
Tweak wording a little.
Submitted by: peterj@
Modified:
head/UPDATING
Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING Tue Mar 12 05:10:41 2019 (r345052)
+++ head/UPDATING Tue Mar 12 06:01:43 2019 (r345053)
@@ -1931,13 +1931,14 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
- [8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by
- an installworld. When upgrading across major versions, the new
- kernel's configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n>
- option for existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x
- binaries). Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
- hard to boot to recover. A GENERIC kernel will include suitable
- compatibility options to run binaries from supported older branches.
+ [8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by an
+ installworld. When upgrading across major versions, the new kernel's
+ configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> option for
+ existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x binaries). Failure
+ to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A
+ GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run
+ binaries from older branches. Note that the ability to run binaries
+ from unsupported branches is not guaranteed.
Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
last time you updated your kernel config file. Options also
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