kernel.old not used any longer?

[Eric Anderson]

Steve Ames wrote:
> I just noticed yesterday that there hasn't been an update to /boot/kernel.old
> since sometime in August. Yesterday was my first bad kernel on -CURRENT and
> I fell back to /boot/kernel.old/kernel and was suprised that it was that old.
> 
> When did 'make kernel' stop copying /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.old? It still
> seems to have that behavior on 5.X. I checked UPDATING but didn't see anything
> on this behavior change. Nor could I find a knob in make.conf.
> 
> Is this user error somewhere?

Using 'make buildkernel ...' and 'make installkernel ...' does the kernel.old 
dance correctly.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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