From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 20: 2:59 2002 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 E6ABB37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A6D43E3B for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmmills@telocity.com) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA03911 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:04:12 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:04:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello - I would appreciate a bit more information on the 'world' and 'kernel' building process. Please point me at the right section of the Handbook or Greg's book if there is a succinct description. I have been doing 'CVSUP' followed by: # make buildworld # make installworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel without really knowing if this was a useful order or exactly what I was accomplishing with each target. My question is: 1) Can I 'make buildworld' to create my tools and supporting files, then 2) Use the newly made "world" to 'make buildkernel', and then 3) 'make installworld; make installkernel' to install these new filesets for general use? I would like to know if this is an acceptable and conservative way to do a rebuild, and to better understand what I get at each step. TIA for any guidance. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message