From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 19 15:17:54 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 D108937B40C for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8JMEjP41704; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:14:45 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:14:44 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Kevin Oberman Cc: j mckitrick , Subject: Re: binary upgrade vs src In-Reply-To: <200109192213.f8JMDjR14762@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: <20010919121407.J34905-100000@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 12:01:31 -1000 (HST) > > From: Vincent Poy > > > > 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. > > You don't want to use CPUTYPE if you will be doing any cross building > for platforms of different CPU types. I've had zero problems on either > my K6-3 or P2 systems, but others have. YMMV > > This sort of thing is all under he category of "what works for > you". If I was running LPRng (and I am), I'd want to have the system > build without lpr (NO_LPR=true). But you can always go back and delete > or rename the files. > > I guess I just feel better when I build the system myself. Yeah, good point there since the timestamps/datestamps look better too :) 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