Re: refine of the GSOC project

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 10:58:50AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 12:53:02AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > 
> > Heh that's funny. He should then run the build.sh command with the old
> > tooldir name or make a symlink from the old tooldir name to the new one.
> > 
> 
> Why not just "build.sh tools" to regenerate the tools for the new
> kernel version?  Or USETOOLS=NO if it is something quick and dirty...

Why not "build.sh release", followed by installing the kernel, rebooting,
and extracting the already made sets files (all but etc.tgz) using tar with
-p or pax with -p e, followed by postinstall -s etc.tgz fix?  Is there any
reason to do this in a less simple, less sane way?

Thor