Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:00:22 -0800 From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: too much confusion over kernel building Message-ID: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C53153C@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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Here's what I have always done... If I'm just building a custom kernel, say to enable device support or something like that I do: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf config MYKERNEL cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL make depend make make install -=-=-=-=-= If I am upgrading my system and have cvsup'd the source files for the userland and kernel binaries I do this instead: cd /usr/src make builworld make buildkernel KERNEL=YOURCONFIGFILE make installkernel KERNEL=YOURCONFIGFILE make installworld This is in the case of a full system upgrade, not just upgrading the kernel source. I suppose if it was just a matter of upgrading the kernel source you could skip installing world and those things. Although I do remember a discussion I had earlier last year about keeping userland and kernel source stuff in sync with the release. I think the gist of what I got was that it may not be a good idea to update kernel sources without updating userland sources as well. Perhaps I'm completely mistaken but the system hasn't crashed yet :) Gene aka gder@gder.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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