From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 9: 1:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D529437B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:01:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7796 invoked by uid 100); 13 Feb 2001 17:01:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14985.26739.587187.388960@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:01:39 -0600 To: Neil Blakey-Milner , Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make world - selecting what will be made In-Reply-To: <74360936@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neil Blakey-Milner 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. 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