From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 8:34:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 254EA37BA1D for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 22397 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 15:34:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 10.2.2.100) (62.2.98.229) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 15:34:35 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:35:58 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45 Beta/6) Personal Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <60197317687.20000803173558@buz.ch> To: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Suggestion for change of /usr/src/UPDATING (was: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels) In-reply-To: <200008031448.AAA42052@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200008031448.AAA42052@drugs.dv.isc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Mark, Thursday, August 03, 2000, 4:48:22 PM, you wrote: > Personally, having ~20 years experience building and installing > kernels. I would prefer kernels to be installed as > kernel. where is replaced by the config file name. > This allows multiple kernels to be installed in a standardised > manner. > Replacing /kernel (/unix, /vmunix etc.) should be a explicit > manual step. If you use make builkernel / installkernel (the recommended procedure for updating. As I'm too lazy to have different scripts for almost the same job, I use it all the time ;-) to do the job, the kernel will end up as /. Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message