From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 03:46:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA17419 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 03:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA17397 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 03:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA26780; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:41:06 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA15036; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:53:31 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199606271053.MAA15036@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Strange idea on doing make world... To: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:53:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: gmarco@masternet.it, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606270048.AAA05880@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from James Raynard at "Jun 27, 96 00:48:35 am" Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > What's happen if I create /usr/src as symlink at the /usr/src of the remote machine > > that does make world and then I do only make install on the other machines ? > > There's a flamewar^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H discussion about this on the tsk, tsk, when backspace doesn't rub out :-) > -current list at the moment. Or something similar, anyway (I seem to > have rather lost track of the argument). > > In the meantime, how about tar'ing up your new versions of /bin, > /sbin, /usr/lib, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin (and any other directories I've > overlooked) and extracting them on the other machines? This only works if being careful at programs like tar, gzip, init, sh and other programs being 'in use' at the time you are doing the untaring. 'install' is safer on this. > > -- > James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland > james@jraynard.demon.co.uk > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de