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To: A JOSEPH KOSHY <koshy@india.hp.com>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Whew 
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:25:49 +0100
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A JOSEPH KOSHY wrote in message ID
<199604120852.AA278169175@fakir.india.hp.com>:
> a. Why do we, on make release:
> 
> 	1.	first make world
> 	2.	copy sources to the chroot tree, chroot, and make world again?
> 	3.	cut the package
> 
> 	Can't we directly go to the package cutting step after the first
> 	make world?  

Nope. Then the packages built would be tainted by any old cruft lying
around on the base system ...

> b. The kernel in the boot floppy was built with my driver, but it wasn't 
>    present in the kernel that finally appeared on the installed disk.
>    Are these different?

Yes. The installed kernel is taken from the bin dist.

Gary