From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 3 13:47:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15865 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA15842 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0ysCjW-00043U-00; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:47:02 -0700 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:47:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Dan Cooper cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Questions on the subject buildworld subject In-Reply-To: <001301bda6bc$1b208360$0201a8c0@pell.fvt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Dan Cooper wrote: > The tutorial mentions that you can use '-jx' as an option with the -current > source to allow make to spawn 'x' simultaneous processes (-j4 was > recommended for single CPU machines) to speed up the build. Can you do this > with 2.2-stable and does it speed up the build significantly? "-jX" is not too staff on stable because the makefiles haven't been updated. > Also, the post install step discusses updating the configuration files in > /etc, /usr, and /var. The tutorial recommends creating a dummy directory, > installing the new /etc and other files, and then going through and > comparing each new file with its old counterpart to see if there are any > changes. My question: is there an easier way of doing this? Is there a > list of important revisions to configuration files somewhere? I'm still > poking my way through each file trying to judge what is important or not. I'd just ignore this step. Updating /etc is not important, unless there are specific compatibility changes required (like the /etc/fstab change sometime ago). So don't update /etc/ unless you know of some reason why you need to. I've got some 2.2-stable machines running with /etc from 2.2-RELEASE (the old /etc/sysconfig stuff). > Thanks, > > Dan Cooper > dcooper@fvt.com Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message