Date: 20 Mar 1999 18:44:14 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build of 3.1-STABLE failing? Message-ID: <xzp3e30xdht.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Michael C. Vergallen"'s message of "Sat, 20 Mar 1999 07:33:12 %2B0100 (CET)" References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903200730330.1180-100000@ns.double-barrel.be>
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"Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> writes: > On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Um - are you sure? I'm running 3.1-STABLE already - just a bit behind > > the times. Normally, to update, I do a "make update", then a "make" > > and "make install". > I allways do it like this... However I'm still using 2.8 I should recieve > 3.1 soon... However it does not make sence to me that they have changed > the way the update process works..if they did I will have to update a lot > off scripts before I put 3.1 into production... The correct way to update a FreeBSD system from source is, and has always¹ been 'make world' or 'make buildworld && make installworld' (the two forms are equivalent), followed by a manual (or automated, e.g. with the mergemaster port) update of the /etc directory. 'make' followed by 'make install' will *not* work. ¹ for as long as I've used FreeBSD, that is DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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