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From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To: Saju Ravindran Pillai <saju.pillai@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: When to rebuild world?
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Hi,

On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 06:43:36 +0530 (IST)
Saju Ravindran Pillai <saju.pillai@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello, I have just started tracking freebsd-current on a spare
> machine. I am going through my first buildworld to update from
> -stable to -current.
> 
> Do I need to buildworld everytime I 'svn update' (atleast weekly). Or
> will src/UPDATING tell me when a buildworld is actually needed?
> 
UPDATING tells you nothing about the parts which got updated. If you
want to save time, you would have to check which files are updated. As
it is rare that only kernel files are updated, I always compile both
the world and the kernel.

Erich