From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 07:38:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24443 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 07:38:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA24435 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 07:38:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.double-barrel.be (8.9.1/8.8.8) id QAA09174; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:37:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be) Received: from ns.double-barrel.be(194.7.102.18) via SMTP by mail.double-barrel.be, id smtpddF9172; Wed Aug 5 16:37:47 1998 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:37:45 +0200 (CEST) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" X-Sender: mvergall@ns.double-barrel.be To: Matt Behrens cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preserving a program across make world In-Reply-To: <35C85F9D.94DEFB3D@iserv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I do think you could for example put your sources in /usr/local/src and then just after a make world just cd /usr/local/src and recompile and or install the programs you changed on your systems. Michael --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Matt Behrens wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked before, but I searched for quite some time > and didn't find anything. > > How can we preserve a program across make worlds in -stable? For > example, I'm using a newer ppp and don't want it overwritten. I had > also at one point wanted to use GNU ls instead of BSD for some > compatibility with a ill-behaved FTP client. > > Is there a way? > > -- > __ > /-/ Matt Behrens > ( ( Iserv Network Operations Center > ) ) http://www.iserv.net/ > /_/ People with the right connection choose Iserv! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message