From 30093b05a07423ac0f2e05641523c6e00e11cb1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warner Losh Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:10:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Warn that you won't be able to build a kernel if you do an installworld --- UPDATING | 24 ++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 223f607a4032..b1141cdf620f 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -18,14 +18,22 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW: to maximize performance. 20031112: - The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields to allow - accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem sizes. You should - build and boot a new kernel BEFORE doing a `make world' as the new - kernel will know about binaries using the old statfs structure, - but an old kernel will not know about the new system calls that - support the new statfs structure. Running an old kernel after a - `make world' will cause programs such as `df' that do a statfs - system call to fail with a bad system call. + The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields to + allow accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem + sizes. You should build and boot a new kernel BEFORE doing a + `make world' as the new kernel will know about binaries using + the old statfs structure, but an old kernel will not know + about the new system calls that support the new statfs + structure. Running an old kernel after a `make world' will + cause programs such as `df' that do a statfs system call to + fail with a bad system call. + + ****************************DANGER******************************* + + DO NOT make installworld after the buildworld w/o building and + installing a new kernel FIRST. You will be unable to build a + new kernel otherwise on a system with new binaries and an old + kernel. 20031112: Some netgraph string length constants have been changed. This