Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:28:04 -0400 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel Message-ID: <20000727092804.A49300@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200007270807.BAA24395@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:07:59AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007262356200.43287-100000@localhost> <200007270807.BAA24395@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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Although this discussion is mostly moot, since the handbook has already been changed to tell people who haven't updated their source to use config and make to build the kernel, another problem with advocating [build|install]kernel is that it requires users to install src-base, since that's where the targets are defined. Since [AFAIK] the "Kernel Developer" distribution defined in sysinstall doesn't contain src-base, not to mention that users will probably find it counterintuitive that downloading the "kernel sources" (ie src-sys) is not sufficient to build the kernel. Again, I'm talking about the people who download 4.1 and have no intention of ever tracking -STABLE, not the people who do track the branch. Just something to think about for 4.2 at least. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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