Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:52:27 -0700 From: "Dan Cooper" <dcooper@fvt.com> To: "FreeBSD-Stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Questions on the subject buildworld subject Message-ID: <001301bda6bc$1b208360$0201a8c0@pell.fvt.com>
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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
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