From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 08:32:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0039B16A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:32:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A58843D49 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:32:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp241-172.lns2.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.241.172]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9B8WePb032092 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:02:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: thierry@herbelot.com Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:02:15 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <434B601F.40007@contexthosting.net> <200510111718.30882.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200510111016.48316.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <200510111016.48316.thierry@herbelot.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1318582.PiXJP1dub3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510111802.32264.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:32:44 -0000 --nextPart1318582.PiXJP1dub3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:46, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Thanks for the tip : I thought of this work-around, but I was not sure of > the syntax and anyway I wanted to restart anew. =46air enough, I needed it to actually rebuild stuff - I couldn't get Qt re= built=20 without it. Of course after all that effort the HD in my laptop died so I had to start= =20 fresh anyway :-/ > The use of a jail to rebuild the system reduced the downtime to just a > reboot, and I don't have to think about obsolete libraries in either the > core system or the ports (and it only "costs" around 5Gigs of hard disk f= or > a second, spare partition which is used when swapping OS's) Yeah, it's a neatidea :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1318582.PiXJP1dub3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDS3ig5ZPcIHs/zowRAi8YAJ42GIRzczdgumumUVVOld2w1VPe8gCdEPbH VYmP0leWiTQeZKDzS2bUJYQ= =qDFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1318582.PiXJP1dub3--