Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:57:21 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for buildworld clarification Message-ID: <20140910215721.7731e99a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <541093BB.5030808@comcast.net> References: <541093BB.5030808@comcast.net>
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:08:59 -0600, 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. FreeBSD, unlike Linux, is separated in "the operating system" (consisting of "world" and "kernel"), and "everything else", which is what the ports collection contains (ports, packages and the like). The FreeBSD OS is maintained by the FreeBSD team, whereas the ports have individual maintainers and are not under direct control of the FreeBSD team. > Under Gentoo, when you rebuilt your world, everything got rebuilt. Every > package that you had installed in your system including the base. On Linux, the part that is comparable to "the operating system" is also a set of packages. Linux distribution maintainers create their "base system" from packages. It differs from distro to distro what the "base system" is constructed of. Basically, even the kernel is a package. FreeBSD has a clear distinction between those parts as described above. The base system is strictly defined and consistent. > Am I understanding that in FreeBSD this is a two step process. No. It is _two processes_. They are independent from each other, even though there may be implications, like if you updated the world to a new major version number, you need to rebuild your ports. > "make > buildworld" simply rebuilds the base system from source. It _builds_ the world, but not the kernel. And it does not install anything. See the comment header in /usr/src/Makefile for a description of the different targets. > 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? See the EXAMPLES section of "man portmaster" for details about rebuilding all ports, there's a nice example on how to perform the "update all installed ports" steps. There are alternatives, for example to use portupgrade. It's also possible to wipe /usr/local, use mtree to rebuild the directory structure, and then manually build all your ports and install them with "make install". This isn't nice, but works as well. I can't even recommend it. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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