Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:09:59 +0000 From: Alistair Sutton <alistair.sutton@ntlworld.com> To: NevTide <nevtide@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld? Message-ID: <1078351798.683.6.camel@falter> In-Reply-To: <20040303212845.47023.qmail@web60907.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040303212845.47023.qmail@web60907.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 21:28, NevTide wrote: > Simple question: > > Does building and installing world under FreeBSD 5.2 > just overwrite older files, or does it completely > replace the directories? It will overwrite the old files. > For example, if I include "NO_SENDMAIL" in my > /etc/make.conf and "make buildworld" this should make > the new system without sendmail, right? Yes > However, the default FreeBSD 5.2 comes with sendmail, > so... will that old sendmail still exists on my system > when I "make installworld", or is the whole base > system replaced by the rebuilt one? The binaries will still exist on your system. You can either leave them there or go through and hand remove them. I think mine are still left around from when I installed 5.0 Al -- LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/everlone GPG/PGP: http://www.no-dns-yet.org.uk/~everlone/pubkey.gpg
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