From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 14:59:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 14:59:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BF4E37B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:59:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4564 invoked by uid 100); 10 Dec 2000 22:59:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14900.2748.669218.70856@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:59:08 -0600 (CST) To: "Khairuddin Ghani" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old files from old freebsd installations In-Reply-To: <110321829@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Khairuddin Ghani types: > I've just recently did a make installworld for 4.2. Would it be safe to say > that any files left over from the previous installation (ie, older creation > timestamps) can be deleted without affecting the core system? Thanks. No. Correct setting of the make configuration options will prevent some binaries from being updated. Also, installworld doesn't install everything, and some the things it doesn't installs may be needed.