Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 18:47:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Matt Smith <fbsd@xtaz.co.uk> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609041842110.24645@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20160904162101.GA1172@xtaz.uk> References: <201609041137.u84BbQoB062773@fire.js.berklix.net> <201609041435.u84EZT7K068273@fire.js.berklix.net> <20160904162101.GA1172@xtaz.uk>
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On Sun, 4 Sep 2016, Matt Smith wrote: > On Sep 04 16:35, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> Hi, Reference: >>> From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> >>> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:37:26 +0200 >> >> "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: >>> Hi stable@ people >>> In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started >>> cd /usr/src ; make buildworld, >>> then realised per >>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >>> I will not be able to >>> make installkernel ; reboot >>> preceeding >>> make installworld >>> Am I on route to shooting myself in the foot ? >> >> It survived. No shot foot :-) > > Just to let you know. I have done this for years on versions 4 through to 10 > and never had a single problem. Only on minor version upgrades though from > say 10.2 to 10.3. My procedure is: > > make -j4 buildworld && make -j4 buildkernel > make installkernel > make installworld > mergemaster > shutdown -r now > make delete-old > make delete-old-libs > > I do this because I don't have a keyboard or monitor on the machine during > normal use. This has *always* worked fine. However for a major version > upgrade from say 10.x to 11.x I have always done it the correct and proper > way using single user mode via the console. Can't recall the last time I did single user. It might have been more than a decade now. Here is what I do: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/buildworld.html (And no, "kernel" is not a mistake.)
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