looking for areas to contribute

[Dan Partelly]

For your point 2:

Once the initial kernel build is completed you should rebuild with

make buildkernel KERNFAST=“cfg” 
where “cfg” is your config file. 

For world :

make buildworld NO_CLEAN=YES.

Relevant manual: build(7)
 

> On 19 Mar 2016, at 17:52, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
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> All,
> I've asked this before, but I'm in a better position now to make this
> work.
> 
> I'm fluent with C and other languages and want to start contributing
> to BSD. I'm happy to work where ever I can be of use, I love more
> lower level stuff but anything that has me working on code would be
> great. My questions:
> 
> 1) How do people usually have their environments set up? I'm thinking
> of running fbsd11 in BHyve where I can do testing, but if there's a
> better way to test that won't require so many resources that would be
> nice as well. I didn't want to break my host with testing since it's
> going to run various other services.
> 2) How do you prevent rebuilding world and kernel for simple patches?
> 3) ideas on what to work on would be great. I haven't gotten into
> really advanced BSD work for a while now, so I haven't found anything
> that is incredibly broken.
> 
> Also although this may be off topic, I'm hoping I might find someone
> who uses IOCage here since this seems to be out of the realm of what
> most people do. Has anyone used IOCage on FreeBSD 11? If so, how did
> you manage to fetch the release? I pointed it to the snapshot FTP path
> and it fetched and extracted (freebsd-update failed to get public
> keys), but it doesn't show it as a release. My second thought is if
> I'm working on world then I can just rebuild world under the jail. Is
> this a good solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> - -- 
> Take care,
> Ty
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