svn commit: r331209 - head

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 27 18:05:36 UTC 2018


On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 11:40:22 AM Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 09:48 -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 05:19:12 AM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 08:52:47AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Thursday, March 22, 2018 04:39:38 AM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > Right, but John had mentioned extra reboot *between* installkernel and
> > > > > installworld, which I've never heard of before.
> > > > From the end up of src/UPDATING:
> > > > 
> > > >         
> > > >         make buildworld
> > > >         make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
> > > >         
> > > If by "reboot" in your original message you meant "drop to single user"
> > > then there's no confusion.  It's just that in my understanding "reboot"
> > > means, well, reboot.
> > No, I meant reboot and it clearly says here "reboot".  Note that
> > 'make kernel' does 'make buildkernel' and 'make installkernel', so
> > the reboot quoted above is after installkernel but before installworld.
> > Perhaps 'make kernel' should be expanded into separate lines for
> > 'buildkernel' and 'installkernel' if that is confusing.
> > 
> 
> I've been working with freebsd since 1996, and had no idea there was a
> kernel target that does build+install.  I think even showing it as
> 
>   make buildkernel installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
> 
> would be more clear.

Yeah, that's not bad.  I don't ever use 'kernel' either.

-- 
John Baldwin


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