Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:22:50 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm fixing the build/install kernel target Message-ID: <20000714172250.P25571@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000714165105.O25571@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 04:51:05PM -0700 References: <20000714165105.O25571@fw.wintelcom.net>
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* Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> [000714 16:51] wrote: > The default will no longer be GENERIC. Having that default makes it > way too easy to shoot yourself in the foot, it will be manditory to > specify a KERNEL=. > > The install target will be corrected to behave the same way that > the old install target from the kernel build directory does. That > means it will do the kernel->kernel.old and install over /kernel. > The current way makes it overly complex and error prone. Actually, I retract this, I'm leaving it broken and raising an exception about how it's killing our newbies and suprising a lot of our users. Marcel, I'd appreciate you investigating fixing this. The above fix could be done or several other options can be taken: 1) "GENERIC" -> "kernel", that way the default works 2) echo >> kernel="GENERIC" >> /boot/loader.conf # fix the /kernel thing to be /GENERIC in the installer 3) make a simplfied target that does the right thing (installing /kernel) rename the buildkernel and installkernel to something else replacing them with the simplified target. 4) the original suggestion: if the KERNEL var isn't set then bomb out, so the install to /kernel. I like the 3 and 4, but 1 2 are pretty acceptable. Making configuring a kernel more complex and error prone should have never happened. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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