From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 19 15: 4:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2223C37B416 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8JM1WX41474; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:01:32 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:01:31 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Kevin Oberman Cc: j mckitrick , Subject: Re: binary upgrade vs src In-Reply-To: <200109192156.f8JLuoR16877@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: <20010919115918.P34905-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:53:09 -1000 (HST) > > From: Vincent Poy > > > > Hmmm, I thought all you really had to do was to update the /etc > > with your own settings and compile a new kernel with your own config and > > that should work. > > In many cases, that's it, but there are lots of possible issues. Do you > run BIND? LPRng? Postfix? ... Any of these would make re-building with > a custom /etc/make.conf essential. And, don't forget to update you > kernel config file as per the new LINT file. Something may well have > changed. > > I also use the CPUTYPE option. This is not a recommendation to use it, > but crypto is possibly faster with it and all of connections to other > systems are encrypted, so this might actually be worthwhile for me. I do run bind, LPRng but not postfix. Those take me only about 2 hours to get in including a custom kernel. I've done this since 2.2-RELEASE up to 4.3-RELEASE and it's just a bit harder than -CURRENT since I have to manually compare my old /etc tree with the new one and merge my settings in. As for bind, all I do is run the configure script and then build and install which takes about 5 minutes. I haven't tried the CPUTYPE option though. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message