Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 17:21:01 +0100 From: Matt Smith <fbsd@xtaz.co.uk> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable Message-ID: <20160904162101.GA1172@xtaz.uk> In-Reply-To: <201609041435.u84EZT7K068273@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201609041137.u84BbQoB062773@fire.js.berklix.net> <201609041435.u84EZT7K068273@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Sep 04 16:35, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >Hi, Reference: >> From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> >> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:37:26 +0200 > >"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: >> Hi stable@ people >> In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started >> cd /usr/src ; make buildworld, >> then realised per >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >> I will not be able to >> make installkernel ; reboot >> preceeding >> make installworld >> Am I on route to shooting myself in the foot ? > >It survived. No shot foot :-) Just to let you know. I have done this for years on versions 4 through to 10 and never had a single problem. Only on minor version upgrades though from say 10.2 to 10.3. My procedure is: make -j4 buildworld && make -j4 buildkernel make installkernel make installworld mergemaster shutdown -r now make delete-old make delete-old-libs I do this because I don't have a keyboard or monitor on the machine during normal use. This has *always* worked fine. However for a major version upgrade from say 10.x to 11.x I have always done it the correct and proper way using single user mode via the console. -- Matt
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