From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 10: 5:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53CA937B699 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:05:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from omgw5.rsvl.itc.hp.com (omgw5.rsvl.itc.hp.com [15.34.240.65]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39887BA4 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from xpabh2.boi.hp.com (xpabh2.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.28]) by omgw5.rsvl.itc.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit6.0.6 OpenMail) with ESMTP id LAA01085 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:05:00 -0700 (MST) Received: by xpabh2.boi.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:00:33 -0800 Message-ID: From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: too much confusion over kernel building Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:00:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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