Building from source

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 22:42, Janos Dohanics <web at 3dresearch.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> There was a time when we were advised to build (or at least install)
> world in single user mode, for example
>
> https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.4-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/handbook/makeworld.html
>
> However, https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html does not
> mention single user mode.
>
> Should I assume that these days best practice allows rebuilding
> world/kernel without needing to boot into single user mode?
>
> For the longest time, I always run make buildworld && make installworld &&
make kernel in remote hosts and I never could drop to single user mode.
Then I realized that unless I want something very special and it can only
be compiled in the kernel, not loaded as a module, that's when I needed all
that process.
I don't think there is any such.
I switched to using -RELEASE (not -STABLE) and all I have to do is
freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install.


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