Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 00:09:50 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building from source Message-ID: <CAAdA2WMA0Wh-fAQjDGkRvMsVrvMdA4vgU6cm-8GnM7zdAfaeGw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20210104144122.2c7c054e4c95d127ee1dc116@3dresearch.com> References: <20210104144122.2c7c054e4c95d127ee1dc116@3dresearch.com>
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 22:42, Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > There was a time when we were advised to build (or at least install) > world in single user mode, for example > > https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.4-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/handbook/makeworld.html > > However, https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html does not > mention single user mode. > > Should I assume that these days best practice allows rebuilding > world/kernel without needing to boot into single user mode? > > For the longest time, I always run make buildworld && make installworld && make kernel in remote hosts and I never could drop to single user mode. Then I realized that unless I want something very special and it can only be compiled in the kernel, not loaded as a module, that's when I needed all that process. I don't think there is any such. I switched to using -RELEASE (not -STABLE) and all I have to do is freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)
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