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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading to NetBSD-1.2-SNAPSHOT? Date: 25 Sep 1996 15:01:22 -0700 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <52ca3i$98t@cynic.portal.ca> References: <5238tt$kk@turbocat.turbocat.de> <524kgd$29j@xciv.demon.co.uk> <529g06$i5a@cynic.portal.ca> <52bvj1$7s@xciv.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <52bvj1$7s@xciv.demon.co.uk>, Paul Civati <paul@xciv.org> wrote: :In article <529g06$i5a@cynic.portal.ca>, : curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: : :> 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. That's true. But only things that use kernel information directly, rather than system calls or the /kern filesystem, will break. If I've got major bugs in a system, I can live without the output of ps, myself. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.