Hello,

>>I try to upgrade my running NetBSD 1.6 to 1.6.1... but I have some
>>problems. Here a description what I did (all in /usr/src:
>>
>>...

>>- build kernel
>>./build.sh kernel=MYKERNEL
> 
> 
> Appears an error like that one?
> 
> /
> |config: cannot read /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/MYKERNEL: No such file or
> |directory
> |
> |ERROR: nbconfig failed for MYKERNEL
> |*** BUILD ABORTED ***
> \

no, build.sh ran at end without error...


> then MYKERNEL should be the path to your Kernel config file, e.g. 
> ./build.sh kernel=/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/conf/ARWEN 

hmm, I could try it.



>>but no kernel is built. There are two descriptions to upgrade NetBSD in
>>the document "Tracking NetBSD-current" ("Updating an existing system"
>>and "Building NetBSD from source"). What is the right way?
> 
> "Tracking NetBSD-current" builds current, which is not always wanted.

Hmmm, I draw the sources of the netbsd-1-6 branch which sould be the 
sources of upcoming 1.6.1...
Anyway, is there a howto what is to do for upgrade via sources?


> try fstat, if it dies with "procfs size mismatch" kernel and userland are
> usually out of sync.

fstat works :-)


thanks and best regards, Tilo