Re: Updating -CURRENT, what about outdated files?

From: Amit K. Rao <arao_at_niksun.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:06:12 -0400
Something like this was covered a few times before. See for example:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2154436+2157803+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20030323.freebsd-questions


BTW, shouldn't "mergemaster -p" be before "make buildworld" ?

On Friday 23 May 2003 04:35 pm, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On one of my systems, I like to track -CURRENT, so I do a lot of:
> - cvsup
> - make buildworld
> - make buildkernel
> - make installkernel
> - mergemaster -p
> - make installworld
> - mergemaster
>
> If I do this a lot, then sometimes my installed world may have
> outdated libraries and header files.  How can I make sure that
> my installed tree doesn't have outdated stuff?
>
> For example, just before doing make installworld, I sometimes do:
> rm -r /usr/include
>
> I am too scared to do this for /usr/lib or any other directory.
>
> Is there a good way to do what I want?
>
> Thanks.
Received on Fri May 23 2003 - 12:06:54 UTC

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