From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 8 19:21:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A876437B632 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 19:21:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA00729; Mon, 8 May 2000 19:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <008601bfb95d$45742580$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Sheldon Hearn" Cc: "freebsd-stable" Subject: Re: Kernel build number in 4.0-STABLE Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 19:21:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Is there an *official* kernel build method that increments properly? I >> assume that the 3.x manual method is depricated now... > >What does "increments properly" mean? The buildkernel / installkernel >system "increments properly" by one definition of the phrase. :-) > >Since you're obviously not doing ``make -DNOCLEAN buildkernel'', >incrementing properly means always using a build number of 0. > >> If the ''make buildkernel installkernel' method is indeed the new, improved, >> preferred method, is there any plan to get this working correctly? > >What about it isn't working, as far as you're concerned? OK, let's start from zero: What is the proper method for building a 4.0-STABLE kernel? # /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL # cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL # make depend # make # make install or # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL # chflags noschd /kernel /MYKERNEL # mv /kernel /kernel.old # mv /MYKERNEL /kernel # chflags schg /kernel --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message