From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 16:18:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAFAF14C0D for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06537; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:18:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:18:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Broderick Wood Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP and Make World In-Reply-To: <199910272212.QAA00274@mark.kingsu.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Broderick Wood wrote: > I CVSUP the system and ports on a weekly basis and do a make > buildworld after each system CVSUP. How often would you recommend > doing the make installworld? Why would you _only_ buildworld? That doesn't actually install the new system you just built, it just sits there in /usr/src/. That said the frequency with which you do that is pretty subjective. If things are working happily for you, you can certainly make world a lot less frequently. If you just like doing it then move to -current. :-) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message