From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 17:06:06 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 2F3EB37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9548C43F3F for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h3D05xV04780; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:06:00 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: "E. J. Cerejo" Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:05:59 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030412184127.GA9625@pooh.nagual.st> <200304121226.01587.kstewart@owt.com> <3E988384.7040502@laposte.net> In-Reply-To: <3E988384.7040502@laposte.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304121705.59463.kstewart@owt.com> 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: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:06:06 -0000 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