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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrading
Date: 28 Jun 1997 05:46:57 GMT
Organization: Reinhild & Andreas Klemm
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In article <EBxFCu.Gv6@nonexistent.com>,
Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> writes:
>
> Make world? That sucks I just spend $40 on this CD ... now I have to
> download everything and remake it?
Calm down, Nathan ;-) You don't have to download everything.
The cvsup program is a tool that only downloads the changed
sources. I'd bet, that if you installed the FreeBSD system
with the sources (/usr/src/), the cvsup process wouldn't run
more than about 15 minutes the first time you start it up.
And it would upgrade the changed sources in /usr/src completely.
This has the advantage, that you have within minutes the latest
and greatest changes in your source tree.
Then comes the famous 'make world', that rebuilds your Operating
System completely. First the developement system will be completely
bootstrapped, so that the latest compiler and library fixes are in
and after that it recompiles the whole OS.
If you are running cvsup on a regulary basis, then you'll notice,
that it only spends some minutes to complete. You decide then
afterwards, if these changes are of interest for you and
if you compile the whole system or only the application.
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