Rebuild World?

[Dark Atheist]

When is it an idea to do this and is it as simple as following

24.4.1 here? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

or is there slightly more to it?

 

[Geffy]

I normally do a world/kernel build this way

# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL_CONF_FILE
# make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL_CONF_FILE
# shutdown -r now

boot into single user mode

# fsck -p
# mount -u /
# mount -a -t ufs
# swapon -a
# export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
# mergemaster -p
# cd /usr/src
# make installworld
# mergemaster
# shutdown -r now

as for when you should do it, well if you're upgrading from one version to another you should do it, or if you're updating for a security fix and it recommends doing a kernel and world update.

 

[Dark Atheist]

thanks geffy - one other question if i was to use csup -g -L2 -h cvsup.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile and get all the src files and did make buildworld, would that update all the installed base packages

eg update openssl from 0.9.8d to 0.9.8i ? as i have installed openssl from prts but the version still shows 0.9.8d

 

[LordOfLA]

it would update your freebsd system to the latest source build

See the port options for how to overwrite the base install.

 

[Dark Atheist]

thanks lord - i think thats required reading best done in the morning - would that be in the handbook or the portsnap dir ?

 

[LordOfLA]

the port makefile

 

[Dark Atheist]

i did look there but didn't see the install dir - guess i over looked it

 

[LordOfLA]

It's probably in one of the higher level make files that drive the ports system then.