On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:13:01PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Aaron Martinez wrote on Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 03:37:54PM -0500:
> > blambert@ wrote:
>
> >> From a quick reading of release(8) and src/etc/Makefile, it looks like
> >> make release pulls the kernel from the running system into the generated
> >> release.
>
> /usr/src/etc/etc.i386/Makefile.inc, target snap_md:
> cp ${.CURDIR}/../sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC/bsd \
> ${DESTDIR}/snapshot/bsd
>
> /usr/src/etc/Makefile, target release:
> -cp ${DESTDIR}/snapshot/*bsd* ${RELEASEDIR}
>
> That doesn't look like the kernel from the running system, IMHO.
That's why I said "quick reading" ;)
As always, thanks for digging deeper than I had the time/inclination to.
Keep reaching for that star! ;)
>
> > I thought that as well, but when i installed from the newly created
> > release cd, I wasn't able to mount ntfs partitions. I went back to my
> > build machine and diff'ed /bsd and /usr/rel/bsd and they are different..
> > is that to be expected?
>
> In case you have RELEASEDIR=/usr/rel and /bsd is not GENERIC, yes,
> i would expect those two kernels to differ.
>
> Yours,
> Ingo
