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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
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In-reply-to: Greg Pavelcak's message of Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:03:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: make world to install instead of upgrade
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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.