Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:33:53 -0400
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:20 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > 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...).
>
> I have a jail of FreeBSD 1.1
>
> 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.
>
> but "make buildworld" REALLY flies :-)

I thought make buildworld didn't come in to existence until 2.2.5?

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Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 22:32:50 UTC

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