From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 6 14:32:57 2004 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 9DD4016A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6272F43D1D for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:32:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (0a243de214220edf565070cc0c316ebb@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203])i26MWsrA020735; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 16:32:54 -0600 (CST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B6B6153764; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:32:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:32:53 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Peter Schultz Message-ID: <20040306223253.GE74091@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <404A1A69.9060207@bis.midco.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+SfteS7bOf3dGlBC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <404A1A69.9060207@bis.midco.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usability Of NOCLEAN 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, 06 Mar 2004 22:32:57 -0000 --+SfteS7bOf3dGlBC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:37:29PM -0600, Peter Schultz wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I'm just curious about the usability of NOCLEAN. If I've just updated=20 > world and things are fine with the installation, is it considered safe=20 > to use NOCLEAN? A couple updates to libc came in this morning just=20 > after I installed a fresh world and I'm wondering what others do in=20 > cases like this. You can often use it, except when you can't. It's mostly safe when you only have minor changes, but at the first sign of trouble you should re-run without NOCLEAN, and never report a build failure from a NOCLEAN world because it's likely to be your fault :-) Kris --+SfteS7bOf3dGlBC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFASlGVWry0BWjoQKURAlwKAJ4qhUJgTr3P7K3hlXwz63EPltV2YwCgu4/V o8gt9YF9vKsYFEis7f/p8lY= =46Ix -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+SfteS7bOf3dGlBC--