On Friday 11 July 2003 09:50 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 11), Jonathan said: > > Having been using FreeBSD for a fair few years now, I quite happily > > do a buildworld every now and then but one of the mysteries for me is > > how to rebuild parts of the OS in isolation. > > > > My only interest in this is when a security update comes out and it > > might only affect a certain part of the source tree. > > > > I appreciate that in the BSD model, the idea is that a widget can get > > changed and making world will allow the new features of that widget > > to permeate to all code, but is there any information on how to go > > into the various "continents" and build those on their own? > > For most stuff, you can simply cd into /usr/src/usr.bin/programname, or > /usr/src/lib/libname, and run "make obj && make depend && make && make > install". If you rebuild a library, though, it's up to you to make > sure that you also rebuild any statically-linked programs using that > library. There may also be issues where buiding one program may > require another program to be updated (the texinfo stuff, for example, > or a new copy of sed or make). The reason there's a "make world" is to > ensure that all these dependencies are taken care of.
If it is a library a "make world" may not be enough and you may need to rebuild your kernel. There has usually been enough time between security notices that I normally rebuild everything. My systems mostly follow -stable and my world wouldn't apply to a release based system. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"