From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 8 7: 5:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6257537B53E for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 07:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12oo9W-000G4N-00; Mon, 08 May 2000 16:04:54 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: "Alexander Frolkin" , "freebsd-stable" Subject: Re: Kernel build number in 4.0-STABLE In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 16:20:11 MST." <18f801bfb87a$d27b9aa0$0200000a@danco> Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 16:04:54 +0200 Message-ID: <61774.957794694@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 07 May 2000 16:20:11 MST, "Dan O'Connor" wrote: > Is there an *official* kernel build method that increments properly? I > assume that the 3.x manual method is depricated now... What does "increments properly" mean? The buildkernel / installkernel system "increments properly" by one definition of the phrase. :-) Since you're obviously not doing ``make -DNOCLEAN buildkernel'', incrementing properly means always using a build number of 0. > If the ''make buildkernel installkernel' method is indeed the new, improved, > preferred method, is there any plan to get this working correctly? What about it isn't working, as far as you're concerned? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message