kernel.old not used any longer?

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Mon May 23 07:43:58 PDT 2005


> On Wednesday 20 April 2005 01:02 am, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Steve Ames wrote:
>>> Hrm. Almost the same as you. On mine that first comparison is actually
>>> "!= //boot/kernel". Likely because I have "DESTDIR?=/" in /etc/make.conf.
>>>
>>> Hrm. Suddenly all makes sense. I defined DESTDIR so that 'make world'
>>> would continue to work normally (instead of doing
>>> buildworld/installworld) and that probably happened around August '04.
>>>
>>> So I guess if I get rid of DESTDIR and start doing
>>> buildworld/installworld then I get kernel.old functionality again...
>>> however this tastes like a bug to me. Perhaps that comparison should be:
>>>
>>> "!= ${DESTIR}/boot/kernel" ??
>>
>> This is not a bug. You are looking for the functionality that is offered
>> by HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD.
> 
> This isn't part of make world.  I do think he has found a bug.  ru@ is the 
> person to ask.

sorry to be slow (marriage and honeymoon (aborted due to medical emergency
in wife's family)), but what happened to this thread?  i just cvsupped and
did a make kernel with /etc/make.conf having KERNCONF=MYKERNEL, and did
not get kernel.old.

randy



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