From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 19 13:50:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB6B37B419 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f8JKnVR21096; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109192049.f8JKnVR21096@ptavv.es.net> To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: binary upgrade vs src In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:35:25 BST." <20010919213525.D62177@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:49:31 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, it's much faster and often the only way to upgrade in a reasonable manner. The down side is that you are installing a generic set of binaries built with a GENERIC kernel as opposed to a build for our system. If I do a binary upgrade, I then try to download the matching sources and then re-build the system as I want it. I'm mostly referring to changes that result from customizations to the kernel configuration and to /etc/make.conf. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message