From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 12: 3:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5178437C1B9; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:03:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16692; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:03:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Warner Losh , Doug Barton , Josef Karthauser , Ruslan Ermilov , stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I still think we should be recommending people use 'make buildkernel' to > build GENERIC and minimize the possibility of foot-shooting from a stupid > config file which then gets blamed on 4.0 itself. I strongly agree with this. These messages are already showing up. I think that most of the -current developers have forgotten just how much different the 4.0 kernel config file is from the 3.x branch. Also, I'd like to suggest modifying 'installkernel' to install the kernel it builds as /kernel, rather than as /${KERNEL} (which usually means /GENERIC). This bit me the first time, and even though it's harmless not everyone is saavy enough to know how to boot a specific kernel, or even to know where to look. Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message