Re: Install kernel and userland without source?

[Dan LaBell <dan4l-nospam%verizon.net@localhost>]

On Feb 9, 2019, at 4:09 PM, J. Lewis Muir wrote:

> I have an amd64 router running the netbsd-8 stable branch that does  
> not
> have sources and does not have pkgsrc, and I'd like to build the  
> kernel
> and userland from source on another machine and then install them  
> on the
> router; how do I do that?
>
> I'm aware of the "Updating an existing system from sources" chapter of
> the NetBSD Guide
>
>   https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-updating.html
<snip>
SYMLINK(7)           BSD Miscellaneous Information Manual            
SYMLINK(7)

NAME
     symlink -- symbolic link handling

SYMBOLIC LINK HANDLING
     Symbolic links are files that act as pointers to other files.   
To under-
     stand their behavior, you must first understand how hard links  
work.  A
     hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original file  
because
     it is a reference to the object underlying the original file name.
     Changes to a file are independent of the name used to reference  
the file.
     Hard links may not refer to directories and may not reference  
files on
     different file systems.  A symbolic link contains the name of  
the file to
     which it is linked, i.e. it is a pointer to another name, and  
not to an
     underlying object.  For this reason, symbolic links may  
reference direc-
     tories and may span file systems.


So, how 'bout a symlink in a very judicious place for you?
( That, works for you? ;-)
-- dan