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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:56:50 +0100
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Bal?zs M?t?ffy <repcsike@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rebuilding world - is "chflags -R noschg *" necessary?
Message-ID:  <20100923155649.GA52798@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik=tPEjZscz4j5ZHLaZatFE%2B2JGvj72WzcZF8iP@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20100923110216.GA1861@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20100923161009.026d950c.freebsd@edvax.de> <4C9B675D.7070500@qeng-ho.org> <AANLkTik=tPEjZscz4j5ZHLaZatFE%2B2JGvj72WzcZF8iP@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:17:40PM +0200, Bal?zs M?t?ffy wrote:
> 
> I think maybe in older releases the build process may have used the
> immutable flag at build??, but the test machine I tried, started out as
> maybe 5.2, and I never had this issue once.

*skip*

> Anton if you wanna be sure just do it, or test it with the version you are
> using, but I don't think you will find any immutable files in /usr/obj

I'm thinking about updating the handbook on this issue.
So I was hoping to hear a definite answer that there will
not be any files under /usr/obj/ with immutable flags.

I can't see a need for immutable flag for obj files,
but I have been wrong before..

thanks
anton

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