From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 10 22:35: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1436137B6A8; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA69389; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:35:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Greg Lehey , Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels In-Reply-To: <396AB0AA.4A4436B8@cup.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > You're not being fair and you know it... In the context of this discussion (using the tools available at present to provide a trouble-free kernel build) I think I was being quite fair. > I understand why these targets are choosen as the supported way to build > a kernel. The problem is that it is starting to get a live of its own. I > think we'd be better of if we evaluate what we need for our userbase to > conveniently build kernels (in a way that helps us support our userbase) > and see if we can improve the buildkernel/installkernel targets for that > or otherwise create other means. Okay, so this is a separate issue. Perhaps we can come up with a better way to handle the dependency problem, but the fact remains that at present there is no other way short of fighting a losing battle with mailing list support after the fact, and so people should be using the buildkernel target if they want their kernel builds to work across upgrades. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message