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. Fair enough, I needed it to actually rebuild stuff - I couldn't get Qt rebuilt without it. Of course after all that effort the HD in my laptop died so I had to start 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 for > a second, spare partition which is used when swapping OS's) Yeah, it's a neatidea :) -- 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
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