Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> 
> > Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > >
> > > You have some other problem than your new kernel (obviously).
> > >
> > > Building and installing a new kernel before building userland is highly
> > > recommended.
> >
> > Why?  I've asked for a reason.  This appears to be a myth.  There's
> > certainly good reasons *NOT* to do so.
> 
> Okay. In all instances where I wrote "building userland", substitute
> "installing userland". Those two steps have been done with one operation
> for a long time, so that I usually don't bother separating them apart.
> 
So, here I am talking about a problem with the documented procedure, 
and now it appears that the naysayer doesn't even *USE* the documented 
procedure -- that I referenced several times -- at: 
  http://netbsd.org/Documentation/current/ 

Those two operations have been available separately for a very long 
time.  I cannot remember ever doing build and install in 1 operation, 
certainly not in -current on any *BSD where the build might fail.


> Nowadays, people are starting to separate them more, so I guess I should
> be more careful with what I write.
> 
Yeah, when talking about documentation, care in writing is of the essence.


(I apologize profusely for confusing Bellovin and Elz.  Heck, other 
than stature and physiognomy, the hair color is a dead giveaway :-)
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