"make installworld" commands used to generate manifest for makefs?

[Garrett Cooper]

> On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:36, Boris Samorodov <bsam at passap.ru> wrote:
> 
> 03.09.2014 21:01, Nenhum_de_Nos пишет:
>> 
>> 
>>> On September 3, 2014 12:02:24 PM GMT-03:00, Boris Samorodov <bsam at passap.ru> wrote:
>>> 28.08.2014 23:02, Craig Rodrigues пишет:
>>> 
>>>> I did this:
>>>> 
>>>> make -DDB_FROM_SRC -DNO_ROOT installkernel DESTDIR=/tmp/test4
>>>> make -DDB_FROM_SRC -DNO_ROOT installworld DESTDIR=/tmp/test4
>>>> make -DDB_FROM_SRC -DNO_ROOT distribution DESTDIR=/tmp/test4
>>>> 
>>>> /tmp/test4/METALOG was created, but it did not seem to have
>>>> /boot/kernel/kernel or
>>>> any kernel modules.  Is that expected?
>>> 
>>> For a new installation "installworld" should be done first (it creates
>>> the needed directory infrastructure). And then one may do
>>> "installkernel".
>> 
>> As I read from so much time ago to install first kernel, starting from which FreeBSD version I should change?
> 
> It seems to be true for ages. Take a look at /usr/src/Makefile,
> section "To cross-install current onto a separate partition".

If you mkdir DESTDIR first, then run the canonical build steps, that would work as well :).
Cheers!
-Garrett