On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:17, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > OK, but you were still confused, because mergemaster doesn't need a > populated /usr/obj to do its thing (only a source tree). You can run > it at any time, before during or after your buildworld. >
Well, I learned something new then. Thank you. > > make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] > > [1] > > <reboot in single user> [3] > > mergemaster -p [5] > > make installworld > > make delete-old > > mergemaster -i [4] > > <reboot> > > > > I just don't see where it says "make installkernel > > KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL. It used to. That's where I got my original > > procedure from as the handbook at the time was somewhat confusing. > > Now the procedure in the handbook is better. > > 'make kernel' = 'make buildkernel' + 'make installkernel' > > Kris OK, I can see that I totally about different make targets and just read that as being half a step - reading it as really being 'make buildkernel'. However, the 'make buildkernal' 'install kernel' steps are more explicit and I prefer that. Possibly I looked on it as similar to 'make world'. Maybe that's why I never said anything about it in the past. Thank you again. Don _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
