From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 21: 8:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4B537C00E for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA47216 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:08:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:08:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel In-Reply-To: <00072622494001.00590@dave.uhring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, David Uhring wrote: > Worse than that, the GENERIC kernel provided no support for sound. And > someone is forgetting here that in a release version, the new tools will > already be installed where they should be in the file tree. Now, the > procedure required in stable during the MFC made perfect sense. But, let's > face the fact that in a release distribution, there won't even be anything in > /usr/obj. Will the previous method of configuring and building a modified > kernel continue to work for people who buy or download the release version? No, no. You're all forgetting that on a system where the source, libraries, and building tools never change, it will always build consistently. It only comes into play when upgrading, but is merely one other thing to do differently while doing so. -- Bob "Reality is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes" - The Amityville Horror III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message