From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 11 13: 4: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragonstar.dhs.org (dsl-028-a.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.161.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D56637B852; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (jonsmith@localhost) by dragonstar.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA99150; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:03:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:03:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Smith To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Kris Kennaway , Greg Lehey , Marcel Moolenaar , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000711143135.00b1a900@207.227.119.2> 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 > > Perhaps when changes are made that require a buildkernel a "HEAD's UP" > should be sent. Then one must otherwise uncomment the MODULES_WITH_WORLD > or expect to really be flamed for using the old kernel building > method. Not quite what Kris is saying, but is a bit of a compromise. > The problems with that include: not everyone reads the list (shocking as it may be :) keeping track for making a build with older sources (which should I do on sources from x/y/z to a/b/c?) I think what it will come to is that there needs to be one way that's smart enough to handle all the guts and gory for us, _including_ those that just want to reconfigure WITHOUT a buildworld (isn't it highly recommended that after installing from a snapshot/release/etc. that you build a custom kernel anyway?) maybe if we are smarter than the makefile, make buildkernel RECONFIGURE kernel=... or if we're not, it could use an earlier suggestion of doing a uname to fetch the kernel source and compare to what's currently there? Just a few ideas and advancement of others To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message