Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 17:45:11 +0200 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@mailbox.org> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building "extra" kernels in stable/11...? Message-ID: <86mvlh7fjs.wl-herbert@mailbox.org> In-Reply-To: <20160716134746.GN1261@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20160716134746.GN1261@albert.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill skrev: > > For the paast few years, up through stable/10, I've had a dedicated > "build machine" at home where I build the role-specific kernels for > a couple of "production" machines (they "only" at home, but my > spouse & I depend on them), and update the production machines by > (temporarily) mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj from the build machine > onto each production machine (via NFS), then performing (essentially) > make installkernel, make installworld, mergemaster (with the usual > additional steps). > > This has worked quite well, and has been nearly trouble-free. It's > described in rather more detail in > <http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/upgrade.html>.) > > Now, the build machine itself runs a GENERIC kernel (and has minimal > ports installed); I told it to build the additional kernels by appending > the line: > > KERNCONF?=GENERIC ALBERT BATS > > to /etc/src.conf -- and that has been working (as above). > > > Today, as part of my gradual ramp-up toward getting readyto test > stable/11 on more than just the above build machine and my laptop, I > figured I'd start building those extra kernels (along with GENERIC) when > the build machine updated its stable/11. > > Accordingly, I appended > > KERNCONF?=GENERIC ALBERT BATS > > to /etc/src.conf -- but the only kernel even attempted was GENERIC. In > reviewing the typescript (as I do all builds within script(1)), there > was no indication that the kernel-building process had any awareness > that anything other than GENERIC was wanted. > > Have I managed to overlook something obvious (again)? 1. Are you sure that you don't have KERNCONF defined in /etc/make.conf? 2. Have you tried to set 'KERNCONF=GENERIC ALBERT BATS' instead? Well, I cannot reproduce this issue on my stable/11 machine. -- Herbert
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