From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 27 14:10:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.email.msn.com (cpimssmtpu08.email.msn.com [207.46.181.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7162A37B422 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lando - 63.15.2.126 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:10:04 -0700 From: "James Johnson" To: Subject: Installkernel Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:09:19 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just a little usability observation(or I am too lazy to script_my_own_tools and want to whine!) The method of building and installing a kernel to me seems a bit off.. Both the buildworld and installworld targets default to GENERIC, yet GENERIC is a file checked into the -CURRENT CVS repository.. Any changes to this file will get blown away if whenever you update the sources unless you explicity exclude this file. No one I know runs BSD with a GENERIC kernel, they have specific requirements for the hardware in their machines. Having to specify which kernel to build with the KERNEL= parameter seems to indicate that people should be running GENERIC kernels all the time as it is the default. This just doesnt seem right. I know a script could easily be written to grab a filename out of something like /boot/loader.conf to get which kernel config file you want to use by default.. Are there any plans to change this or is this method final? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message