From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 17 23:49:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 077E237B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:49:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8378 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Jan 2001 07:49:17 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:49:17 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Donald J . Maddox" Cc: Dima Dorfman , dan@langille.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building Message-ID: <20010118094917.A7976@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <20010118071534.031B13E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010118022343.A7286@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20010118094123.B6927@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <20010118024452.A7508@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010118024452.A7508@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>; from dmaddox@sc.rr.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:44:52AM -0500 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2001-01-18 (02:44), Donald J . Maddox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:41:23AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > Who exactly is advocating a full buildworld? The "new" style should not > > require a full buildworld. If it doesn't work, it's a bug. > > I was under the impression that 'make buildkernel' requires a fully- > populated /usr/obj. No, it doesn't. It may not work at the moment without it, but that's another story. It is, of course, suggested that you run 'make buildworld' beforehand when upgrading to a new version of FreeBSD. That applies equally to using the old method, come to think of it, but it involves a lot more work to get the old method to do the correct thing in this case. Basically, that's why the new method exists - to overcome any upgrading problems that the old method could not. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message