[635] in NetBSD-Development
Mixing 1.0 and -current
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Thu Mar 9 01:51:03 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 01:50:19 -0500
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that this is a really stupid idea.
* Almost all of the major changes are in the kernel. If you're
running a -current kernel, you're just as prone to discovering new
bugs whichever version of user-land you're using.
* You'd have to do something seriously klugy to incorporate the new
libkvm, ps, fstat, etc.; on the order of creating a symlink orchard
with links to the -current tree for those things and to the 1.0 tree
for everything else. Otherwise you can't rebuild the system.
* There are *many* problems fixed in -current, especially with the
disk device drivers and the 3c509 driver. (Some of this had been
back-ported to the 1.0 kernel, but then you're not running a `clean'
1.0 kernel anyway.)
Also, there is fairly complete SCO emulation expected to be committed
in -current in the next couple of weeks...
