From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 24 17:03:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA09186 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 17:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox1.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.166.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA09181 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 17:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emily.oit.umass.edu by pobox1.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #20973) with ESMTP id <0EH100125ETXPN@pobox1.oit.umass.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:03:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by emily.oit.umass.edu (8.8.3/8.8.6) with SMTP id UAA06661 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:03:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:03:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: make world to install instead of upgrade To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi. I upgraded to current. Actually, it was more like an installation than an upgrade. Which brings me to my question. Is there anything I can do to the Makefile to have 'make world' go ahead and overwrite /etc and /var, or whatever the protected directories are. In this case, I really had no customization files, so I just did cp -rp /var/tmp/root/etc /. I would like to just have the 'make' do this so I don't have to go through building the dummy root etc. Thanks to every one for the advice I received here during this installation. Greg