Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:15:58 +0300 From: "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net> To: "AB" <eincello@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New install, rebuilding world Message-ID: <006701c699fc$9843db30$0a0aa8c0@rivendell> References: <20060627143120.84623.qmail@web32512.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
From: "AB" <eincello@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:31 PM Subject: New install, rebuilding world > I'm new to FreeBSD, but I've been reading alot in the > Handbook about building custom kernels and rebuilding > world, and still can't seem to find what I'm looking > for. > > I want to be able to recompile my whole system so that > it's optimized for my hardware, but I'd rather not > track -Stable and have to rebuild a whole slew of > stuff every few days. Track RELEASE security fix branch - the brach you want to cvsup is for example RELENG_6_1 for the bugfix and maintenance release for 6.1 (cvsupping RELENG_6 would get you stable from 6 branch, which is at the moment 6.1 stable). For the hardware etc - just tweak the make.conf and kernel config file to suit your needs. > Can someone give me some advice (or point me to some > documentation) on recompiling the -Release6.1 and then > doing light maintenance (bug fixes, security updates) > afterwards? The rest of if goes by the handbook - you can cvsup by hand or just make a script running once a week or so and alerting you if there are changes in release sources. Basically the regular buildworld - buildkernel - installkernel - installworld process is the recommended way to update, but now and then you can do smaller fixes just going to directory and doing a make install from there (but doing that you're on your own). -Reko
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?006701c699fc$9843db30$0a0aa8c0>