From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 30 00:19:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18889 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:19:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Terry.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw (Terry.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw [140.113.122.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18874 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ijliao@Terry.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw) Received: (from ijliao@localhost) by Terry.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA22196; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:13:59 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:13:59 +0800 From: Liao Ying Chieh To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: why sources? why not binaries? Message-ID: <19981230161359.A22111@terry.dragon2.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from "Evren Yurtesen" on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 08:56:56 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 08:56:56 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > I wonder why we need to grab the sources and compile when > we need to upgrade to a never version (with make world) > why can't we get binaries and then just install with make installworld ? > then just 1 person would compile then and it would save a lot time You can use /stand/sysinstall to upgrade your system there are many snapshot under ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD or you can use one powerful machine to make world after make world, export /usr/src and /usr/obj then you can use nfs to make installworld -- mailto:ijliao@dragon2.net?subject="send pgp key" to get my pgp public key key finger print : FA 38 7E 91 FA 22 FA F6 63 04 E3 B5 A1 9F 0C CD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message