On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote:

> I've been tracking netbsd-1-6 using cvs in one of my workstations, and now
> I'm ready to build the world. I have read /usr/src/BUILDING and
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/ and I just want to know if the
> following is the correct procedure:
>
> (1) Build the tool chain. In /usr/src run ./build.sh -t
> (2) Build and install a new kernel (using the just built tools)
> (3) Reboot into that kernel, and
> (4) "build the world". In /usr/src run ./build.sh

Yes, that should do it. It's also nice to build to a DESTDIR, and use
"pax -r -w pe" to copy the files to root after everything's built.

> Then what? I think I need some way to update my /etc files--much like
> FreeBSD's mergemaster, right? Or that's something to do manually?

(5) Run "etcupdate".

Frederick