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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:42:41 +0200
From:      "Aragon Gouveia" <aragon@phat.za.net>
To:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Build sequence (was Re: mergemaster theory (was: Re:/etc/defaults/rc.conf theory) )
Message-ID:  <006b01c1f087$9344dee0$01000001@aragon>
References:  <20020430161355.14FEB5D05@ptavv.es.net><1020186756.11357.76.camel@lohr.digitalglobe.com><002501c1f084$6e0cda90$01000001@aragon> <15566.65418.773606.563032@guru.mired.org>

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Heya,

> > Am I missing anything from not using the newer method?
>
> Yes. What you're doing will use the old world to compile the new
> kernel, even if you've done a "make buildworld". This doesn't always
> work. Doing "make kernel" - which does buildkernel then installkernel
> - will use the binaries in /usr/obj to avoid that problem.

Ah that's cool. In the past I actually used to do installworld before
compiling the kernel to avoid the problem *gulp*. This is much better :).


> The downside is that the /usr/src make targets always do the complete
> rebuild.  If you're working on kernel source, you want to use the
> "old" method to build the kernel, because you can probably skip the
> first three steps, and always the first two, after you've changed the
> source.

Will keep this in mind. Will help if I need to add a kernel option and
recompile quickly after upgrading :).

Thanks Kent and Mike.


Regards,
Aragon



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