From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 21:33:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB12316A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:33:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BC843D41 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:33:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-236-186.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.236.186]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0HLXC31060043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:33:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41EC2F85.6050303@mac.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:35:01 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie References: <20050117060510.GA63358@xor.obsecurity.org> <8DC9B67A-6857-11D9-8611-000393681B06@lafn.org> <20050117071900.GA92079@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050117190712.GA70520@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.5 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on pi.codefab.com cc: f-questions List Subject: Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:33:17 -0000 Doug Hardie wrote: [ ... ] > It it at all possible to not have to buildworld when building a new > kernel? For example, I was trying to add option atapicam. It would > seem that buildworld would not be necessary in that situation. Yes, if the kernel sources and the world sources are in sync with each other, *and* with the binaries which are installed, you can rebuild the kernel without changing or reinstalling the world. If you simply want to try compiling the kernel several times over using different options, that's fine. If you run cvsup and it changes /usr/src, and you do not know that those changes are not significant enough to make a difference, *that's* when you need to rebuild world as well. -- -Chuck