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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:35:58 +0200
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        Mark.Andrews@nominum.com
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: Suggestion for change of /usr/src/UPDATING (was: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels)
Message-ID:  <60197317687.20000803173558@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <200008031448.AAA42052@drugs.dv.isc.org>
References:  <200008031448.AAA42052@drugs.dv.isc.org>

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Hello Mark,

Thursday, August 03, 2000, 4:48:22 PM, you wrote:


>         Personally, having ~20 years experience building and installing
>         kernels.  I would prefer kernels to be installed as
>         kernel.<FOO> where <FOO> is replaced by the config file name.
>         This allows multiple kernels to be installed in a standardised
>         manner.

>         Replacing /kernel (/unix, /vmunix etc.) should be a explicit
>         manual step.

If you use make builkernel / installkernel (the recommended procedure
for updating. As I'm too lazy to have different scripts for almost
the same job, I use it all the time ;-) to do the job, the kernel
will end up as /<configname>.



Best regards,
 Gabriel




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