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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrading to NetBSD-1.2-SNAPSHOT?
Date: 25 Sep 1996 19:01:53 GMT
Organization: XCIV
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In article <529g06$i5a@cynic.portal.ca>,
curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
>>The snapshots are ok, but if you want to build a new kernel you have to sup
>>the latest source and rebuild the whole source tree.
>
> No, you just have to sup the latest kernel source (both the common
> bits and the bits specific to your architecture, ksr-common and
> ksrc-sun3, for example) and compile those.
I didn't think that was supposed to be a good idea, as some changes to the
kernel can sometimes break some of the system binaries.
I suppose the best thing to do would be wait for a snapshot to be
released and then quickly sup kernel source before much changes.
-Paul-
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