From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 16:26:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D576516A401 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:26:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx1.netclusive.de (mx1.netclusive.de [89.110.132.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E0F13C4B8 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:26:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (p3EE21B7F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.226.27.127]) by mx1.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E2DDE80AF for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:25:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id A06D915213; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:25:55 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:25:55 +0100 (CET) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <60882.192.168.11.7.1169318360.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <200701201325.16571.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200701210829.52858.freebsd@dfwlp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: garfield.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1169396755 55755 192.168.100.11 (21 Jan 2007 16:25:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:25:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:26:00 -0000 On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:29:52 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: >> Terrific waste of bandwidth. > > *shrug* i dont see it that way. i see it as insurance that when i build > kernels for 15 machines, they are all getting the cleanest sources possible, > with absolutely nothing left over from a previous build. There is no such thing as "dirty" sources - at least not by your definition. cvsup or the new builtin replacement replaces old files with new ones and erases obsolete ones. And there is *never* anthing left over from a previous build in /usr/src/! All the work is done in /usr/obj/ and you can erase that at any time. In fact the target cleanworld does just that. Rebuilding the source tree isn't a big deal in terms of bandwidth, but thousands of people doing that on a regular basis will drive the costs of maintaining mirrors up - even though traffic is getting cheaper with time. Regards Chris