From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 8:57:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D46A37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0865D43E42 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:57:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g91FvdOL092240; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:57:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g91FvYbT092239; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:57:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:57:34 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Brian Henning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system update Message-ID: <20021001155734.GB92113@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-14.1 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:11:13AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote: > Hello- > > what is the differnece between these two files? > standard-supfile > stable-supfile > in what situation would one cvsup one or the other? stable-supfile always contains the configuration to cvsup the RELENG_4 branch, whereas standard-supfile is different on each of the different branches. Thus on 4.6.2-RELEASE, it pulls down the RELENG_4_6 branch, on 4.x-STABLE it pulls down RELENG_4 and on 5-CURRENT, it pulls down HEAD. > the other question i have is what are the differnence between these two > processes: > config GENERIC > cd ../../compile/GENERIC > make depend; make; make install > > as oposed to a the build world process? > > when would you perform one over the other? The first is the "old" way, the second is the "new" way. The "make buildkernel" way uses build tools from the updated /usr/src tree rather than the currently installed system, which is usually what you want to do when updating the system. Otherwise, use which ever one tickles your fancy. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message