Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:37:25 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernelbuild "the new way" (Was: APM not even a sign) Message-ID: <20020624013725669.AAA723@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.67170.20020623160147@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 23 Jun 2002, at 16:01, questions-digest boldly uttered: > Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:07:03 -0500 > From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> > > On Sunday 23 June 2002 01:17 am, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > On Saturday 22 June 2002 23:20, David Syphers wrote: > > > > > > I belive the "new way" is _only_ for when you're upgrading the entire > > > system - it's for use between buildworld and installworld. The "old way" > > > is still the way for when you're just building your kernel. > > > > Well, I think Handbook is a bit vague on this. It does say that "the old > way" > > should be used when the source haven't been updated. But since I alway cvsup > > my sourcetree prior to a kernelbuild (and subsequent make world) this really > > doesn't apply. "The new way" should be fine for me, but alas, isn't. > > It's not clear what order you're doing things in. If you cvsup, then follow > the buildworld - buildkernel - installkernel - installworld route, that > should work fine, and there's something wrong if it doesn't. But you can't > build a new kernel and install that, and _then_ buildworld. All sorts of > nasty problems can arise from kernel and world being out of sync. This route > of doing things has never been supported. > > The "old way" is now only for situations like where you want to add a device > or a kernel option to a system, but don't want to upgrade the system to a > later version. So what's the downside of using the "new way" to rebuild a kernel on an existing system who hasn't had its source upgraded since the last build? That's been what I've always done - relatively new FreeBSD user that I am (since 4.1). Any reason not to do it that way? -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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