Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:06:33 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make buildworld Message-ID: <20020807150633.GB36526@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020807104347.F20616-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> References: <20020807141934.23707.qmail@ns1.onie.yi.org> <20020807104347.F20616-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Ronneil Camara wrote: > > > All I can say is that I just normally execute those commands as what I have > > been doing a long time ago. > > > > vi stable-supfile > > cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile > > cd /usr/src > > make buildworld > > make installworld > > This is not right. Here's what you should be doing: > > vi stable-supfile > cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=<your kernel name here> > make installkernel > shutdown -r now > # (make sure the system comes up) > shutdown -r now > # (come up in single-user mode this time) > make installworld > mergemaster > shutdown -r now > # (come up normally this time) > > These steps have been documented in /usr/src/UPDATING since 4.0. This > is the only supported procedure for upgrading your system from source. > ... that is _guaranteed_ to work (modulo the ``mergemaster -p'' step). At different times, a simple "make world kernel" may work, but it is not guaranteed to. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9UTd5Ukv4P6juNwoRArrJAJ4oQg7ZDHjuiCL7nAidufUC2/cuBACeOAQ0 YL4oWYnowY+GTI7GzGPHO9s= =d+l2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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