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

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016, Matt Smith wrote:

> 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.

Can't recall the last time I did single user. It might have been more 
than a decade now.  Here is what I do:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/buildworld.html

(And no, "kernel" is not a mistake.)