Creating kernel distribution from sources

[Devin Teske]

On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Rick Miller wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I've generated a DVD iso and imported it into a provisioning platform.
> After this integration, a decision was made to rebuild the kernel
> with an option enabled.  As opposed to executing a full `make
> release`, I just want to build the kernel distribution.  In reading
> the manpage, it looks like I can just run `make release.3 && make
> release.5 && make release.6` to accomplish this.  Is this correct?
> Would the resulting files be installed in ${CHROOTDIR}/R?
> 

Almost! Don't forget you need to first remove the target files created by each of those targets.

In example:

rm -f /usr/release/usr/obj/usr/src/release/release.{3,5,6}
make release.{3,5,6}

Yes, the resulting files will be in (by default) /usr/release/R
-- 
Devin

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