From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 10 7:13:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wysoft.tzo.com (c481444-a.bremtn1.wa.home.com [24.12.235.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4348A37B537; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:13:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wysoft@wysoft.tzo.com) Received: from localhost (wysoft@localhost) by wysoft.tzo.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6ACYBU01738; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 05:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 05:34:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Wyman To: Vivek Khera Cc: Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels In-Reply-To: <14697.55301.614418.390096@onceler.kcilink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway writes: > > KK> Subject basically says it all. "make buildkernel KERNEL=" and > KK> "make installkernel KERNEL=" (or set KERNEL in /etc/make.conf or > KK> the environment, where KERNEL is the name of the kernel to build (GENERIC, > KK> etc)) are what you should always be using to build your kernels, unless > KK> you know what you're doing. > > So you're saying that even after upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 you should > use make buildkernel? That seems counter to what has been discussed > before, and is way non-BSD-ish. The buildkernel process is used _during_ an upgrade. After the new 4.0 kernel has been booted and appropriate changes have been made to the system, kernels may be built successfully in the traditional way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message