Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 17:44:55 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: gmarco@masternet.it, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange idea on doing make world... Message-ID: <199606271744.RAA05551@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606271053.MAA15036@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> (kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de)
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> > In the meantime, how about tar'ing up your new versions of /bin, > > /sbin, /usr/lib, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin (and any other directories I've > > overlooked) and extracting them on the other machines? > > This only works if being careful at programs like > > tar, gzip, init, sh and other programs being 'in use' at the time you are > doing the untaring. 'install' is safer on this. Good point. It should probably be done in single-user mode, possibly with the --unlink option to tar (this is how the DES stuff installs itself). Perhaps a better idea is to tar up the new /usr/obj directory, copy it over, untar it and run 'make install'. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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