From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 11:43:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064E737B48B for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4TIgwmS088446 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:42:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17D8PS-0007kJ-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:42:58 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating question (yes, I know that this has been rehashed ma ny t imes...) References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1AD7@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 29 May 2002 13:42:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1AD7@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> Message-ID: <87sn4akd71.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-05-29T15:39:43Z, "Morse, Richard E." writes: > Hmmm.... I read /usr/src/UPDATING. My copy only says that I should run > "make world" (except when it doesn't work). I'm tracking RELENG_4_5 -- > could that have a less up-to-date /usr/src/UPDATING? Probably; I'm tracking -STABLE. > Thanks for posting the correct instructions -- it is much clearer than in > the handbook... It's getting pretty simple these days. Newer versions of -STABLE introduce a few new options to mergemaster to help matters along: -p Pre-buildworld mode. Compares only files known to be essen- tial to the sucess of {build|install}world, including /etc/make.conf. -C After a standard mergemaster run, compares your rc.conf[.local] options to the defaults. -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message