From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 10 23:37: 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 6D5CB37B6F3; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:37:05 -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 XAA76382; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:37:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:37:05 -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: <396ABE06.7D41BB35@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: > Kris Kennaway 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. > *slap* This is getting off-topic for -stable. I don't really have much interest in the mechanics of a "does it the right way" kernel build mechanism which handles tool dependencies, my only point was that when you're upgrading there's only one mechanism we *currently provide* which will DTRT. I posted because I was sick of the flood of questions after the binutils upgrade where people were finding their "config"-based mechanism wasn't working (and in some cases getting misleading or incorrect advice about how to fix it). I still maintain that people should use this for all upgrades because it is the only tool for the job, and this is the advice I'll be handing out to everyone until we have a better solution. 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