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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
cc: davidg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: follow-up to kernel compile problem...
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Thanks Bruce...

	This is one that I've gotta store close to my keyboard :)



On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >	So, each time that current updates, I'm going to have to 
> >make world to keep it in sync?  Can I do a make world on a live
> >system, if that is the case...or do I have to shutdown into single
> >user mode?  someone had mentioned that they are going into single
> >user mode each time *shrug*
> 
> >	If so, what would be recommended procedure to do this with the
> >minimal downtime?
> 
> >	cd /usr/src
> >	make
> >	shutdown
> >	kernel -s
> >	make world
> 
> 	# read all changes in /usr/src/etc and adapt them to your /etc
> 
> 	# if config sources have changed
> 	cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/config
> 	make depend
> 	make
> 	su
> 	make INSTALL='install -C'
> 	exit
> 
> 	# if config data files have changed
> 	cd /sys/i386/conf
> 	config -n YOURKERNEL
> 
> 	# if kernel sources or kernel config have changed
> 	cd /sys/compile/YOURKERNEL
> 	make depend		# if anything relevant has changed
> 	make
> 
> 	# if the kernel binary just changed
> 	su
> 	mv /kernel.old /kernel.veryold
> 	cp -p /kernel /kernel.old
> 	cp -p kernel /
> 	shutdown
> 
> 	# if headers have changed
> 	cd /usr/src/include	# repeat this for other header dirs as necessary
> 	make depend
> 	make
> 	su
> 	make INSTALL='install -C'
> 	exit
> 
> 	# if lib sources have changed
> 	cd /usr/src/lib
> 	make depend
> 	make
> 	su
> 	make INSTALL='install -C'
> 	exit
> 
> 	# if any user sources have changed
> 	# do this one directory at a time if only a couple of things have
> 	# changed and you know what they are
> 	cd /usr/src
> 	make depend
> 	make
> 	su
> 	make INSTALL='install -C'
> 	exit
> 
> 	# occasionally repeat previous step and/or do it for the whole tree
> 	# in case you missed something.
> 
> 	# very occasionally repeat previous step in case the makefiles
> 	# missed something.
> 
> 	# put INSTALL=install -C in /etc/make.conf to save typing
> 
> Bruce
> 

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