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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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