From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 14:07:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA25947 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 14:07:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA25939 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 14:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id af07125; 27 Jun 96 21:14 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa00318; 27 Jun 96 21:00 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA05551; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 17:44:55 GMT Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 17:44:55 GMT Message-Id: <199606271744.RAA05551@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de CC: gmarco@masternet.it, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199606271053.MAA15036@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> (kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) Subject: Re: Strange idea on doing make world... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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