Re: build a release

2008-05-19 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:05:14PM +0100, banana split wrote: >slowly by slowly I'm approaching to openbsd. >I've made some humble progress in this last month and I've a couple of >questions concerning the building the system from sources. >1) >the $RELEASEDIR is filled with *.tgz after issue

Re: build a release

2008-05-16 Thread Alexander Hall
Dear Mr Banana, banana split wrote: I'm not sure that building the system from source is the primary target sorry, why? what is the primary way? I've learnt many many things I was talking in general terms, which may or may not apply to you. However many people coming from other os'es (in par

Re: build a release

2008-05-15 Thread banana split
> I'm not sure that building the system from source is the primary target sorry, why? what is the primary way? I've learnt many many things > (Hint; use snapshots) man pages & faqs are amazing so it is quite impossible that things go wrong. however there are no snapshots since 6 may and because m

Re: build a release

2008-05-15 Thread Alexander Hall
banana split wrote: hi all, slowly by slowly I'm approaching to openbsd. I've made some humble progress in this last month and I've a couple of questions concerning the building the system from sources. I'm not sure that building the system from source is the primary target when learning open

build a release

2008-05-15 Thread banana split
hi all, slowly by slowly I'm approaching to openbsd. I've made some humble progress in this last month and I've a couple of questions concerning the building the system from sources. 1) the $RELEASEDIR is filled with *.tgz after issued the make release but I have these (ignored) errors at the end

Re: How can I build a release without writing into the /usr/src tree?

2007-06-05 Thread Nigel J. Taylor
done by using the following process: > >$ cd /somewhere >$ cp /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC . >$ config -s /usr/src/sys -b . GENERIC >$ make clean && make depend && make > ... lots of output ... > > After building my new kernel, I re

Re: How can I build a release without writing into the /usr/src tree?

2007-06-05 Thread Woodchuck
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Don Jackson wrote: >cd /home/openbsd/4.1/src/etc/../sys/arch/amd64/conf && config GENERIC >config: cannot create ../compile/GENERIC: Permission denied >*** Error code 2 > >Stop in /home/openbsd/4.1/src/etc (line 11 of etc.amd64/Makefile.inc). > > (FYI, /usr/s

How can I build a release without writing into the /usr/src tree?

2007-06-05 Thread Don Jackson
userland, reboot, and then go to build a release. In the build process for a release ( make release ), at some point, here is what happens: cd /home/openbsd/4.1/src/etc/../sys/arch/amd64/conf && config GENERIC config: cannot create ../compile/GENERIC: Permission denied *** Error c

How can I build a release without writing into the /usr/src tree?

2007-06-05 Thread Don Jackson
ot, build userland, reboot, and then go to build a release. In the build process for a release ( make release ), at some point, here is what happens: cd /home/openbsd/4.1/src/etc/../sys/arch/amd64/conf && config GENERIC config: cannot create ../compile/GENERIC: Permission denied