From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 3 12:59:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11569 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fvt.com (usr44-dialup38.mix1.Sacramento.mci.net [166.55.13.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA11564 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcooper@fvt.com) Received: from pell [192.168.1.2] by fvt.com [192.168.1.2] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP3.R) for ; Fri, 03 Jul 1998 12:52:27 -0700 Message-ID: <001301bda6bc$1b208360$0201a8c0@pell.fvt.com> From: "Dan Cooper" To: "FreeBSD-Stable" Subject: Questions on the subject buildworld subject Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:52:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been building/installing the world for the first time, updating 2.2.6 release to 2.2-stable, following the directions in the tutorial by Nik Clayton (http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.uk/make-world/make-work.html) , and I have a couple of questions. The tutorial mentions that you can use '-jx' as an option with the -current source to allow make to spawn 'x' simultaneous processes (-j4 was recommended for single CPU machines) to speed up the build. Can you do this with 2.2-stable and does it speed up the build significantly? Also, the post install step discusses updating the configuration files in /etc, /usr, and /var. The tutorial recommends creating a dummy directory, installing the new /etc and other files, and then going through and comparing each new file with its old counterpart to see if there are any changes. My question: is there an easier way of doing this? Is there a list of important revisions to configuration files somewhere? I'm still poking my way through each file trying to judge what is important or not. Thanks, Dan Cooper dcooper@fvt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message