Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 03:04:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world to install instead of upgrade Message-ID: <199709280104.DAA13700@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: Greg Pavelcak's message of Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:03:32 -0400 (EDT) References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970924195618.5701B-100000@emily.oit.umass.edu>
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> > Hi. I upgraded to current. Actually, it was more like an installation > than an upgrade. Which brings me to my question. Is there anything I > can do to the Makefile to have 'make world' go ahead and overwrite > /etc and /var, or whatever the protected directories are. In this > case, I really had no customization files, so I just did cp -rp > /var/tmp/root/etc /. I would like to just have the 'make' do this so I > don't have to go through building the dummy root etc. # cd /usr/src/etc; make distribution This will install the etc files and rebuild the directories in /var, /usr and root. Eivind.
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