From owner-cvs-all Sat May 8 17:47:26 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C920F14E2A; Sat, 8 May 1999 17:47:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA09463; Sun, 9 May 1999 10:17:17 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA09958; Sun, 9 May 1999 10:17:16 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 10:17:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Wemm Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf Makefile.alpha src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 Message-ID: <19990509101715.O68170@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199905082004.NAA34290@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199905082004.NAA34290@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Peter Wemm on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 01:04:40PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Saturday, 8 May 1999 at 13:04:40 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > peter 1999/05/08 13:04:40 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/alpha/conf Makefile.alpha > sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 > Log: > I'm sick of the automatic rename of /kernel to /kernel.old while doing > development that leads to lots of crashes during boot. > > I have made a 'reinstall' target (like in ports, and reinstall.debug) > This is most useful if you want to keep /kernel.old as a known bootable > kernel. If you test a new kernel and have to reboot for a fix, a > 'make reinstall' will install the new kernel over the top of the old > non-viable one, leaving the old one untouched. This is mainly meant > for development, not general users. Great idea. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message