Re: Building multiple kernels with "make release"

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 05:26:50PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:11:48AM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
> > Is it possible to build multiple different kernels and include them all in
> > a release image?  release.conf says so.  But from experiment, what I see is
> > that:
> > 
> > * release.sh does pass both kernels in the KERNCONF variable to "make
> > buildkernel"
> > * "make buildkernel" dutifully builds both
> > * BUT, "make installkernel" only installs the first kernel and ignores the
> > rest
> > * Only the first kernel ends up in the final image
> > * It's not really clear where an alternate kernel should go, anyway.
> > Probably someplace like /boot/kernel.debug , but release.conf doesn't
> > provide a way to specify that.
> > 
> > So is the "multiple kernels in release.conf" feature unfinished?  If so,
> > does anybody have a good idea about the best way to finish it?
> > 
> > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/7045b1603bdf054145dd958a4acc17b410fb62a0/release/release.conf.sample#L32
> > 
> 
> Last I was aware, based on a patch sent to me privately, I believe, it
> should work.
> 
> Let me take a look.
> 

Oh, wait.  Are you using 'make release' or release/release.sh?

Glen