Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:17:40 -0500 From: Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net> To: frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> Subject: Re: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one? Message-ID: <45EB4584.1030008@cyberwang.net> In-Reply-To: <2942dae0703040752w3e9d61e1v34b7f4ca97abac49@mail.gmail.com> References: <2942dae0703031923q2887c59dh85f103bff424e7b7@mail.gmail.com> <op.tonvhock8527sy@guido.klop.ws> <2942dae0703040752w3e9d61e1v34b7f4ca97abac49@mail.gmail.com>
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frzburn wrote: > Well, again, thanks for all your replies! =) > After all you told me, I guess this guides describes the right tools to use > and the right way for rebuilding world. > > http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/beginners/update_freebsd.php > > Thanks! > > > frzburn > > > On 3/4/07, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:23:55 +0100, frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi everyone, >> [cut some text] >> > So here come my questions: >> > Is portsnap syncing the sources correctly for rebuilding world, or must >> I >> > use cvsup? >> > If so, of what use is portsnap if I must use cvsup for synchronizing my >> > source? >> > >> > In fact, I'm just looking at the most up-to-date/approved/correct >> > technique/tool to synchronize my source for ``rebuilding world'' with >> the >> > latest sources from FreeBSD-6-STABLE. >> >> Read this. It tells you why portsnap is invented. And why cvsup/csup is >> still better for other things then ports. >> http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ >> >> Ronald. >> -- >> Ronald Klop >> Amsterdam, The Netherlands >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" It might be worth noting you can set KERNCONF in your make.conf and you can just do make kernel instead of make buildkernel && make installkernel. it just runs both for you. There's no difference it is just a shorter path (not much though).
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