Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:05:59 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "E. J. Cerejo" <ej.cerejo@laposte.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make cleandisk Message-ID: <200304121705.59463.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <3E988384.7040502@laposte.net> References: <20030412184127.GA9625@pooh.nagual.st> <200304121226.01587.kstewart@owt.com> <3E988384.7040502@laposte.net>
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On Saturday 12 April 2003 02:22 pm, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > Shouldn't he clean up /usr/obj? I always do, rm -Rp * inside that > directory, /usr/src should be left alone. If you watch bhe buildworld, make basically does that for you. I haven't cleaned up /usr/obj for a long time. Kent > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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