Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:06:55 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year Message-ID: <200602281406.55340.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060228191706.GB84451@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060221103409.021a8808@broadpark.no> <200602281030.16637.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <20060228191706.GB84451@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:17, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > OK, but you were still confused, because mergemaster doesn't need a > populated /usr/obj to do its thing (only a source tree). You can run > it at any time, before during or after your buildworld. > Well, I learned something new then. Thank you. > > make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] > > [1] > > <reboot in single user> [3] > > mergemaster -p [5] > > make installworld > > make delete-old > > mergemaster -i [4] > > <reboot> > > > > I just don't see where it says "make installkernel > > KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL. It used to. That's where I got my original > > procedure from as the handbook at the time was somewhat confusing. > > Now the procedure in the handbook is better. > > 'make kernel' = 'make buildkernel' + 'make installkernel' > > Kris OK, I can see that I totally about different make targets and just read that as being half a step - reading it as really being 'make buildkernel'. However, the 'make buildkernal' 'install kernel' steps are more explicit and I prefer that. Possibly I looked on it as similar to 'make world'. Maybe that's why I never said anything about it in the past. Thank you again. Don
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