From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 19 7:26:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A9A15198 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 07:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA55490; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:24:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:24:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world shortcut (was Re: Snapshots) In-Reply-To: <199907191419.HAA15075@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: : In message , : Matt Behrens writes: : > On 19 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: : > : 'make depend && make && make install' is much faster and works fine : > : for small incremental updates. : > Hmm, how do we know when it's not working fine? After the system : > breaks? :-) : That's why the &&'s are there. && only allows subsequent commands to : execute if the previous command returned with an exit status of 0. I guess my question was less of that and more of "can we be assured we will have a working system even if the entire process returns no error codes"? Matt Behrens Owner/Administrator, zigg.com Chief Engineer, Nameless IRC Network To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message