On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:35:24PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> >I would like to know what the general consensus is on the ability to "fall
> >back" to a stable kernel when running in -current userspace.  I am a
> >new-to-NetBSD convert from Linux :-) and my frame of referencce is that it
> >was not uncommon to get "stuck in the middle" when trying to track
> >development kernels; if the dev kernel was broken in some way that required
> >booting into the stable kernel, some of the user-space bins/libs needed to
> >be swapped as well.  I'm just curious to know if I'm in for a repeat
> >experience if I attempt to track NetBSD-current.
> >
> My understanding is that that won't work well -- -current userland 
> often relies on new kernel features that 1.5.x kernels don't have.

I don't think it would be enough parts that the machine would fail though.
Surely most of userland is not dependent on the kernel.

Is it really enough to keep you from fixing things?

Of course, if you are going to play with -current, you shouldn't really
be dependent on that machine anyway, or at least not the drive you are
using for -current.

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