Building OpenBSD-stable

Building OpenBSD-stable requires building and installing a new kernel, building and installing a new userland, and building and installing the new Xenocara.

Upgrading the Kernel

Building an upgraded kernel is like building a custom kernel, as discussed in Chapter 19. Basically, the process boils down to this:

# cd /usr/src/sys/arch/platform/conf/
# config GENERIC
# cd ../compile/GENERIC
# make clean && make
# make install

(If I planned to build OpenBSD regularly on this machine, I would script this.)

Note

Chapter 19 is full of warnings about difficulties compiling a custom kernel. These don’t apply to building the GENERIC kernel on -stable. Remember that -stable includes only security fixes and obviously correct ...

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