Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:01:39 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make world - selecting what will be made Message-ID: <14985.26739.587187.388960@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <74360936@toto.iv>
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Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> types: > On Tue 2001-02-13 (14:29), Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > 2. Is there any way to specify an alternative package to a current one > > (eg exim for sendmail)? > No. There's no way to get any package automaticaly updated with the world. However, FreeBSD uses mailwrapper, which means you can reconfigure the mail system being used via /etc/mail/mailer.conf. See the mailwrapper and mailer.conf man pages for details. > > 3. Do I have to do a make installworld when make world is finished? > If you don't, it doesn't get installed. Actually, you don't. "make world" does the installworld for you. Neil was probably thinking of "make buildworld", which doesn't install things. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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