upgraded to CURRENT = system is dead
Robert Watson
rwatson at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 17 15:25:58 PST 2003
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 10:37 AM +0100 11/17/03, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> >Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot at lphp.org> writes:
> >> Here is what I did:
> >> $ cvsup blablabla...
> > > $ make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL &&
> > > make install kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> >
> >There's not much point in 'make buildkernel' if you haven't
> >done 'make buildworld' first.
>
> Uh. /usr/src/UPDATING explicitly says:
>
> 20031112:
> [...] You should build and boot a new kernel BEFORE doing a
> `make world' as the new kernel will know about binaries using
> the old statfs structure, but an old kernel will not know
> about the new system calls that support the new statfs
> structure.
>
> We generally recommend doing a buildworld first, but it has
> to be done in a different order for this upgrade.
Mmm. Indeed. I've just committed what I hope is a clarification to
UPDATING to suggest buildworld buildkernel installkernel before
installworld.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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