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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:37:22 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
Cc:        Joseph Glass <glassjos@msu.edu>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Compiling Kernel after cvsup & upgrade 
Message-ID:  <200104180237.f3I2bNc31552@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:40:25 EDT." <3ADCAA39.38EA1A36@lmc.ericsson.se> 

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> From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:40:25 -0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> You should provide us with the complete error messages if you really
> need help.
> 
> But yes, you must generally to a make world after a cvsup. Usually the
> procedure to upgrade a system after a cvsup is something along the lines
> of:
> 
> make buildworld && make buildkernel && ( drop single-user ) && make
> installkernel && reboot single user && make installworld && mergemaster.
> 
> But this is all documented in the handbook and you're making me loose my
> time answer this already answered question.

While this is OK, there is no reason to drop to single-user before
re-booting. In fact, you can now simplify the procedure to:
make buildworld
make kernel KERNCONF=mykernelconf
reboot "-s"
fsck -p
mount -u /
mount -a
cd /usr/src
make installworld
mergemaster

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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