From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 23:45:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802FB37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:45:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB4D43F5B for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:45:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b226.otenet.gr [212.205.244.234]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0F7jVxc002203; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:45:32 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0F7jV3p098871; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:45:31 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0F7jVMt098870; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:45:31 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:45:31 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Kent Stewart Cc: Schrodinger , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating Procedure Message-ID: <20030115074531.GB97205@gothmog.gr> References: <2362.159.134.75.124.1042597157.squirrel@webmail.konundrum.org> <20030115072001.GA97205@gothmog.gr> <200301142339.35573.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301142339.35573.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-01-14 23:39, kstewart@owt.com (Kent Stewart) wrote: > On Tuesday 14 January 2003 11:20 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2003-01-15 02:19, schrodinger@konundrum.org (Schrodinger) wrote: > > > When the cvsup has finished successfully I would then: > > > cd /usr/src/ // this is all assuming that I have > > > properly configured my make.conf > > > make world > > > > > > When this has finished I would re-compile my kernel and reboot. > > > Are these steps correct or am I missing anything? > > > > "make world" will also install the kernel. > > If you read /usr/src/Makefile, you will find the following > > # The user-driven targets are: > # > # buildworld - Rebuild *everything*, including glue to help do > # upgrades. > # installworld - Install everything built by "buildworld". > # world - buildworld + installworld. > # buildkernel - Rebuild the kernel and the kernel-modules. > # installkernel - Install the kernel and the kernel-modules. > # reinstallkernel - Reinstall the kernel and the kernel-modules. > # kernel - buildkernel + installkernel. > > I don't see an installkernel as an option for world. No, indeed. Pardon my replying quickly. I meant "will alsoo install the new userland". This isn't always a good thing, since sometimes changes in the new userland programs will make them incompatible with the old kernel. Then the next step (buildkernel) will fail. The safest method is to follow the instructions of the section I quoted above. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message