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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:53:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Cc:        gmarco@masternet.it, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange idea on doing make world...
Message-ID:  <199606271053.MAA15036@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606270048.AAA05880@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from James Raynard at "Jun 27, 96 00:48:35 am"

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> > 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



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