2008/2/25, Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The issue is that when building and installing new kernels (eg, when a
>  new security patch is released), it is not totally obvious to the
>  (automated) build script what the file /bsd really is, is it the
>  uniprocessor kernel, or a link to the multiprocessor kernel?
>  If the latter, than blindly copying the new uniprocessor kenel to /bsd
>  is probably not what you want to do.
>
>  With my proposal, new kernels can be safely copied to /, since they
>  have unique and distinct names.

Just use links. Works great for me.

# ls -1i /flash/bsd*
6 /flash/bsd
5 /flash/bsd.old
5 /flash/bsd_large_42_PCENGINES_CUST2_vrpatch_err05_cvs24-01-2008
6 /flash/bsdl42_PCENGINES_err08_cvs25-02-2008-patch_vr-pach_ike

P.K.

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