From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 14:22:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA6837B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3BC43F93 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ej.cerejo@laposte.net) Received: from laposte.net ([68.160.106.19]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030412212220.ZDFY15325.out006.verizon.net@laposte.net>; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:22:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3E988384.7040502@laposte.net> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:22:12 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Stewart References: <20030412184127.GA9625@pooh.nagual.st> <200304121226.01587.kstewart@owt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [68.160.106.19] at Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:22:20 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: make cleandisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 21:22:23 -0000 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 >