Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:57:34 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system update Message-ID: <20021001155734.GB92113@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <OE48e8XoAifH68lH1eM0000833d@hotmail.com> References: <OE48e8XoAifH68lH1eM0000833d@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:11:13AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hello-
>
> what is the differnece between these two files?
> standard-supfile
> stable-supfile
> in what situation would one cvsup one or the other?
stable-supfile always contains the configuration to cvsup the RELENG_4
branch, whereas standard-supfile is different on each of the different
branches. Thus on 4.6.2-RELEASE, it pulls down the RELENG_4_6 branch,
on 4.x-STABLE it pulls down RELENG_4 and on 5-CURRENT, it pulls down
HEAD.
> the other question i have is what are the differnence between these two
> processes:
> config GENERIC
> cd ../../compile/GENERIC
> make depend; make; make install
>
> as oposed to a the build world process?
>
> when would you perform one over the other?
The first is the "old" way, the second is the "new" way. The
"make buildkernel" way uses build tools from the updated /usr/src
tree rather than the currently installed system, which is usually what
you want to do when updating the system. Otherwise, use which ever
one tickles your fancy.
Cheers,
Matthew
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