From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 23 13:26:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [205.178.90.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE9637B403 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:26:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from morpheus.kfu.com (morpheus.kfu.com [3ffe:1200:301b:1:2d0:b7ff:fe3f:bdd0]) by quack.kfu.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6NKQnt84708 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by morpheus.kfu.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6NKQnt16520; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Message-ID: <3B5C8889.6070807@quack.kfu.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:26:49 -0700 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010701 X-Accept-Language: en, en-US, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "A. L. Meyers" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is "stable" "stable"? References: <20010721182504.L857-100000@nomad.consult-meyers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A. L. Meyers wrote: > Hi! > > Having followed the postings here for a few weeks it seems, at > least occasionally, that "stable" appears to be a bit less than > "stable". > > Is it recommended procedure to always do "make clean" in /usr/src > before cvsupping the latest sources and following the rest of the > steps as explained in the handbook? > > (Have deleted /usr/obj as recommended in handbook.) If you do a 'make buildworld', then neither of these steps should be required unless the world is somehow broken (that is, if everything is working correctly, 'make buildworld' should be sufficient). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message