Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:22:12 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" <ej.cerejo@laposte.net> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make cleandisk Message-ID: <3E988384.7040502@laposte.net> References: <20030412184127.GA9625@pooh.nagual.st> <200304121226.01587.kstewart@owt.com>
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Shouldn't he clean up /usr/obj? I always do, rm -Rp * inside that directory, /usr/src should be left alone. Kent Stewart wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2003 11:41 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >>Bit confused. The handbook states "run make cleandisk twice" after >>things went wrong making world. Fine.. But.. if all went well, do I >>run this command also or can I just cvsup new sources and do a >>makeworld next week or so again? > > > One time is to clean /usr/src and the other is to clean /usr/obj. If > everything goes well, you don't need to do anything but cvsup. > > If something goes wrong, it depends on whether you have left over stuff > from an older release. The presence of left over stuff is when cleandir > is used. Once you are running a new release, a simple build error can > usually be fixed by waiting until your mirror has the updated code and > recvsup. Most of the mirrors are updated on an hourly basis. You just > don't usually know when that is :). > > Kent >
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