Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:02:15 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: thierry@herbelot.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install? Message-ID: <200510111802.32264.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200510111016.48316.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <434B601F.40007@contexthosting.net> <200510111718.30882.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200510111016.48316.thierry@herbelot.com>
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--nextPart1318582.PiXJP1dub3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:46, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Thanks for the tip : I thought of this work-around, but I was not sure of > the syntax and anyway I wanted to restart anew. =46air enough, I needed it to actually rebuild stuff - I couldn't get Qt re= built=20 without it. Of course after all that effort the HD in my laptop died so I had to start= =20 fresh anyway :-/ > The use of a jail to rebuild the system reduced the downtime to just a > reboot, and I don't have to think about obsolete libraries in either the > core system or the ports (and it only "costs" around 5Gigs of hard disk f= or > a second, spare partition which is used when swapping OS's) Yeah, it's a neatidea :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1318582.PiXJP1dub3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDS3ig5ZPcIHs/zowRAi8YAJ42GIRzczdgumumUVVOld2w1VPe8gCdEPbH VYmP0leWiTQeZKDzS2bUJYQ= =qDFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1318582.PiXJP1dub3--
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