Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-09 Thread Jason
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:21:34PM -0600, Peter Steele thus spake: Ah, you _probably_ want to do 'make release' -- I have no experience with this however to be much more help if that _is_ what you need. Didn't know about that one. I'll have to check it out--thanks. I started out doing this

RE: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-09 Thread Peter Steele
I started out doing this a couple of months ago, and the project has been a wealth of experience and knowledge, to say the least. Once you are able to do manage building a release, you can actually build your own update server and distribute binary updates on your custom kernel. Hmm,

What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
We had been building systems from the binary release plus our custom kernel. In doing that we just used the base collection from the 8.0 binary release DVD and copied our kernel files to /boot/kernel. We are now doing both installworld and installkernel. The issue I'm having is figuring out

Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, and so on. So it's safe to say just merging the trees like this isn't the way to go. What is the proper process to finish a bsd image after installworld and installkernel is done? Not sure what you are trying to do, but usually you better follow the instructions from /usr/src/UPDATING.

Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, and so on. So it's safe to say just merging the trees like this isn't the way to go. What is the proper process to finish a bsd image after installworld and installkernel is done? Not sure what you

Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Glen Barber
Ugh, I hate simple typos... On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:   # mv etc /somewhere/safe Should be: # mv `hostname`.etcbak.tar /somewhere/safe -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
By the way, I beleive a good part of /etc is installed/reinstalled by a make installworld and/or mergemaster. I should have clarified my scenario better. I am building a BSD image from scratch, as part of an automated process. I am not updating an existing system. I had been doing this by

Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: By the way, I beleive a good part of /etc is installed/reinstalled by a make installworld and/or mergemaster. I should have clarified my scenario better. I am building a BSD image from scratch, as part of an automated

RE: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
Ah, you _probably_ want to do 'make release' -- I have no experience with this however to be much more help if that _is_ what you need. Didn't know about that one. I'll have to check it out--thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list