omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable

[Matt Smith]

On Sep 04 16:35, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>Hi, Reference:
>> From:		"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com>
>> Date:		Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:37:26 +0200
>
>"Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
>> Hi stable@ people
>> In a jail,  uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started
>> 	cd /usr/src ; make buildworld,
>> then realised per
>>   https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>> I will not be able to
>> 	make installkernel ; reboot
>> preceeding
>> 	make installworld
>> Am I on route to shooting myself in the foot ?
>
>It survived. No shot foot :-)

Just to let you know. I have done this for years on versions 4 through 
to 10 and never had a single problem. Only on minor version upgrades 
though from say 10.2 to 10.3. My procedure is:

make -j4 buildworld && make -j4 buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
mergemaster
shutdown -r now
make delete-old
make delete-old-libs

I do this because I don't have a keyboard or monitor on the machine 
during normal use. This has *always* worked fine. However for a major 
version upgrade from say 10.x to 11.x I have always done it the correct 
and proper way using single user mode via the console.

-- 
Matt