From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 15 15:41:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986B237B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.igalaxy.net (hal.igalaxy.net [64.160.104.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377EF43E6A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikeyg@igalaxy.net) Received: from mikeyg [64.160.106.44] by postoffice.igalaxy.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id A2FD48ED0086; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:02:21 -0700 Message-ID: <220d01c244ac$d7264b70$0301a8c0@mikeyg> Reply-To: "Mike Grissom" From: "Mike Grissom" To: "ko" Cc: References: <20020815223615.56242.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: where do kernel configuration files go? Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:41:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /usr/src/sys/arch/conf The arch in the path is like i386 or alpha, etc. Its the arch of your cpu. ----- Original Message ----- From: "ko" To: Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:36 PM Subject: where do kernel configuration files go? > Hi! > > Just finished 'make world' process to update a couple of machines to > STABLE branch using the process outlined in the handbook. The updates > were done using one build machine to build 'world' and 'kernel' for > the other machines. > > Section 20.5.1 in the handbook states: > > "The build machine must have the kernel configuration files for each > machine in /usr/src/sys/arch/conf if it is going to build their > kernels." > > So I copied the kernel configuration files for every machine to that > directory. But when I did: > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=BOXn > > the build machine did make on its own kernel config file instead of > the config file for the box that needed to be updated. Being new to > all this, I didn't figure this out until after I mounted /usr/src and > /usr/obj NFS on the update box and ran 'make installkernel > KERNCONF=BOXn' and got an error message. So I double checked a couple > of things, including 'make.conf' on both boxes to make sure they > passed the same variables, and that 'KERNCONF=xxx' on the build box > had its config file listed first. Eventually, I reasoned that maybe > the kernel config file needed to be in '/sys/i386/conf' where it is by > default, so I copied it there. This time the kernel install worked. > > My question is do the kernel config files for all the other machines > that need to be updated really need to be in /usr/src/sys/arch/conf as > the handbook states? Or can I leave them in /sys/i386/conf? Could I > could have simply created a symlink in /sys/i386/conf that pointed to > the files in /usr/src/sys/arch/conf? > > Thanks in advance! > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message