On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Greywolf wrote:

> Would I be considered a blasphemer/heretic were I to suggest an "install"
> target for the kernel Makefile?  To wit:

Heretic. The heretic threatens to change existing dogma, whereas
blasphemers simply violate norms. :-)

> .if defined(COMPRESS_KERNEL)
> KERNEL=netbsd.gz
> .else
> KERNEL=netbsd
> .endif
> 
> install: netbsd
> 	@if [ -f /${KERNEL} ]; then { \
> 	    mv /${KERNEL} /o${KERNEL}; \
> 	 } fi;
> 	@if [ "${COMPRESS}" ]; then { \
> 	     gzip netbsd; \
> 	 } fi;
> 	install -c -m 0540 -o root -g kmem ${KERNEL} /${KERNEL};
> 
> 
> ...or something along those lines.

If you must do this, I'd rather see the old kernel moved to
${KERNEL}.old. That way, if I lose power on my headless i386 right in
the middle of the install, it might still boot. The search path, is, I
think, "netbsd, netbsd.old, netbsd.gz, netbsd.old.gz". I'd prefer to
reserve "onetbsd" for hand-picked, known, stable kernels.