From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 7 20:21:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F9837BBF8 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 20:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000508032114.KAFJ29387.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 20:21:14 -0700 Message-ID: <391632D2.A8433F0F@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 22:21:54 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Kernel build number in 4.0-STABLE References: <18f801bfb87a$d27b9aa0$0200000a@danco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan O'Connor wrote: > > Is there an *official* kernel build method that increments properly? I > assume that the 3.x manual method is depricated now... > > If the ''make buildkernel installkernel' method is indeed the new, improved, > preferred method, is there any plan to get this working correctly? > I always assumed that the ''make buildkernel installkernel'' method was necessary for the FIRST build of 4.0 upgrading from 3.x. Now that I have 4.0 installed, I have gone back to the /usr/sbin/config KERNEL; cd ../../compile/KERNEL; make depend; make; make install method, which works fine. This seems to increment properly (unless I add the -r option to config, which sometimes I do.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message