Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:26:37 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for buildworld clarification Message-ID: <5410A5ED.2000904@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <541093BB.5030808@comcast.net> References: <541093BB.5030808@comcast.net>
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On 09/10/14 20:08, Dave Babb wrote: > Good Afternoon All, > > > I am requesting a clarification on make buildworld. I am junior with > FreeBSD (< 8 months)...and I am getting confused with Gentoo's > definition of build world, and FreeBSD's. > > Under Gentoo, when you rebuilt your world, everything got rebuilt. Every > package that you had installed in your system including the base. > > Am I understanding that in FreeBSD this is a two step process. "make > buildworld" simply rebuilds the base system from source. Then to rebuild > your ports....I understand that I need to call "portmaster -af"...Am I > correct, or is their a different set of switches I need to pass to > portmaster to tell it to rebuild every installed port? > Good afternoon, Start here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html Cheers,
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