Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:48:23 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: NevTide <nevtide@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld? Message-ID: <20040303234823.20783555@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040303212845.47023.qmail@web60907.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040303212845.47023.qmail@web60907.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:28:45 -0800 (PST) NevTide <nevtide@yahoo.com> wrote: > Simple question: > > Does building and installing world under FreeBSD 5.2 > just overwrite older files, or does it completely > replace the directories? > > For example, if I include "NO_SENDMAIL" in my > /etc/make.conf and "make buildworld" this should make > the new system without sendmail, right? > > 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? It will. Setting "NO_SENDMAIL" means that it won't build and install sendmail and override your modified config files (if you'reusing postfix for example). -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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