Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:13:49 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src UPDATING Message-ID: <20050526111349.1a6ff9c0@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050526083101.GJ850@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <200505252103.j4PL3D01019450@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050526083101.GJ850@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:31:03 +0200
Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> wrote:
> > + make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
> > + nextboot -k testkernel
>
> wouldn't it be more intuitive to use KERNEL=testkernel instead of
> KODIR=/boot/testkernel, in regards to the nextboot(8) syntax, which
> does not explicitely specify the /boot directory.
I've a lot of experience with KODIR, but no experience with KERNEL. I
was told it does what I want to do too, but I also was told that it is
used in previous major versions of FreeBSD in a different way.
Yes, this is committed to current, not to an older version of FreeBSD.
But FreeBSD 4 also has nextboot (even when it has a different syntax),
and having users which tell other users out-of-context to use KERNEL=xxx
and nextboot may result in frustated users.
Those are my quick thoughts about this. I don't mind if someone else
thinks we should use KERNEL instead and goes ahead and changes the
description.
Bye,
Alexander.
--
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