Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:22:24 -0500 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, questions at FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating FBSD on one slice from another slice Message-ID: <20030623182224.GA74212@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20030623152919.GC92371@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20030623134307.GA3080@sheol.localdomain> <20030623152919.GC92371@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Jun 23, at 04:29 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:43:07AM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> >
> > What I'm stumped with is how to tell 'make [build|install][world|kernel]'
> > to do their thing from the OS in the slice I'm running (the newer), but
> > do the reads and writes on the other, older slice. Same conundrum with
> > 'mergemaster'; how do I tell it to do it's thing on that older slice?
>
> You'll have to copy /mnt/s2/etc/make.conf temporarily in place of
> /etc/make.conf, if there's any significant difference between the two
> systems. Then you can just do:
>
> # cd /mnt/s2/usr/src
> # make installkernel installworld KERNCONF=FOO DESTDIR=/mnt/s2
> # mergemaster -m /mnt/s2/usr/src -D /mnt/s2
All righty, then! You just gotta love these developers.
Many thanks, Matthew.
Dave
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