Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:37:44 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building new kernel fails? Message-ID: <v0420550cb402b8154e10@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990913100217.01bbb3e0@staff.sentex.ca> References: <3.0.5.32.19990913100217.01bbb3e0@staff.sentex.ca>
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At 10:02 AM -0400 1999/9/13, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Are you sure you want > *default tag=. For ports and doc, I believe that this is correct. At least, that's the way I interpret the comments in /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile, as well as /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile and /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile. If this is not correct, I'd appreciate whatever advice you may be able to give. > src-all > > Is all you really need. This doesn't get the crypto stuff, does it? IIRC, it also doesn't get the ports or doc stuff. Should these other things not be updated at the same time as /usr/src? > Also, you will need to monitor and merge the changes in /etc. > > You dont mention anything about that. Uh, no. I wasn't aware that this was necessary. I take it I should do some searches on this "mergemaster" program I've seen referenced? > Its probably safer if you do a > config -r HOST to remove the old cruft in your compile directory, or > rm -R ../../compile/HOST > config HOST > cd ../../compile/HOST > make depend;make I got this same advice from another person on the list, and so far it appears that this has solved the problem. Out of curiosity, is it a good habit to get into to always do a "config -r HOST"?, or is this an unusual sort of thing that you might only want to do after having built a new machine and you now want to go rebuild the kernel so that it corresponds? > I would suggest not doing autobuilds until you are more comfortable with > the whole process. It was my understanding that "make buildworld" actually did the builds in a separate directory tree (something like /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp), and so long as you didn't do a "make installworld" on a machine where the previous "make buildworld" did not complete successfully, you should be okay. Is this not an accurate statement? Since this is a rather lengthy process on this machine, if I can avoid the additional time of having to wait for "make buildworld" to complete, I'd like to do that. In this case, I did check the output of the results that had been mailed to me regarding the cvsup commands and the "make buildworld", and confirmed that things appeared to have been successful before I manually proceeded with a "make installworld". Is there something else I've missed? I really would like to learn the proper way to do all this stuff, so any advice you may have would be appreciated, especially if you can help me understand the reasoning behind the advice. Thanks again! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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