Updating FBSD on one slice from another slice

[D J Hawkey Jr]

On Jun 23, at 04:29 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:43:07AM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> > 
> > What I'm stumped with is how to tell 'make [build|install][world|kernel]'
> > to do their thing from the OS in the slice I'm running (the newer), but
> > do the reads and writes on the other, older slice. Same conundrum with
> > 'mergemaster'; how do I tell it to do it's thing on that older slice?
> 
> You'll have to copy /mnt/s2/etc/make.conf temporarily in place of
> /etc/make.conf, if there's any significant difference between the two
> systems.  Then you can just do:
> 
>     # cd /mnt/s2/usr/src
>     # make installkernel installworld KERNCONF=FOO DESTDIR=/mnt/s2
>     # mergemaster -m /mnt/s2/usr/src -D /mnt/s2

All righty, then! You just gotta love these developers.

Many thanks, Matthew.
Dave

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