Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Steve Bertrand <st...@ibctech.ca> writes: > >> Many of my routers boot/run from a USB thumb stick. To upgrade these >> routers, I "dd" the device onto another one, pop the backup into a build >> machine, and do the normal build*/install* with a DESTDIR parameter. >> >> If the upgraded device does not boot (due to kernel problems), I just >> wipe it clean and start over. >> >> Having a kernel.old in this case is a waste of time and of space. Is >> there any parameter I can tell the build process to ensure that the >> kernel.old work does not get done? > > Did you look at the makefiles or build(7)?
No. I was not in the vicinity of a machine to do that at the time of my post. I was hoping to get the info for later, when I need to do the builds, which you provided: > "reinstallkernel" was what you were > looking for. Thanks! Steve
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