New install, rebuilding world
I'm new to FreeBSD, but I've been reading alot in the Handbook about building custom kernels and rebuilding world, and still can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I want to be able to recompile my whole system so that it's optimized for my hardware, but I'd rather not track -Stable and have to rebuild a whole slew of stuff every few days. Can someone give me some advice (or point me to some documentation) on recompiling the -Release6.1 and then doing light maintenance (bug fixes, security updates) afterwards? Thanks, Adam __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New install, rebuilding world
From: AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:31 PM Subject: New install, rebuilding world I'm new to FreeBSD, but I've been reading alot in the Handbook about building custom kernels and rebuilding world, and still can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I want to be able to recompile my whole system so that it's optimized for my hardware, but I'd rather not track -Stable and have to rebuild a whole slew of stuff every few days. Track RELEASE security fix branch - the brach you want to cvsup is for example RELENG_6_1 for the bugfix and maintenance release for 6.1 (cvsupping RELENG_6 would get you stable from 6 branch, which is at the moment 6.1 stable). For the hardware etc - just tweak the make.conf and kernel config file to suit your needs. Can someone give me some advice (or point me to some documentation) on recompiling the -Release6.1 and then doing light maintenance (bug fixes, security updates) afterwards? The rest of if goes by the handbook - you can cvsup by hand or just make a script running once a week or so and alerting you if there are changes in release sources. Basically the regular buildworld - buildkernel - installkernel - installworld process is the recommended way to update, but now and then you can do smaller fixes just going to directory and doing a make install from there (but doing that you're on your own). -Reko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New install, rebuilding world
Read the Makefile in /usr/src, and UPDATING in /usr/src as well. What you will want to do is track the security branch, and subscribe to the security list to get any reports of issues. If an issue arises, you can choose to cvsup and rebuild, or not. If the issue is not in a subsystem you use, you can ignore it. -Derek At 09:31 AM 6/27/2006, AB wrote: I'm new to FreeBSD, but I've been reading alot in the Handbook about building custom kernels and rebuilding world, and still can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I want to be able to recompile my whole system so that it's optimized for my hardware, but I'd rather not track -Stable and have to rebuild a whole slew of stuff every few days. Can someone give me some advice (or point me to some documentation) on recompiling the -Release6.1 and then doing light maintenance (bug fixes, security updates) afterwards? Thanks, Adam __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New install, rebuilding world
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:31:20 -0700 (PDT) AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to FreeBSD, Welcome! but I've been reading alot in the Handbook about building custom kernels and rebuilding world, and still can't seem to find what I'm looking for. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html; should sort you out, but please feel free to ask if you'd like a trimmed-down, dot-point, step-by-step guide, just to get that first one under the belt! I want to be able to recompile my whole system so that it's optimized for my hardware, but I'd rather not track -Stable and have to rebuild a whole slew of stuff every few days. Fair enough, though do keep in mind that ports aren't covered by a buildworld et al. procedure. As Reko suggested, you'll want to track the RELENG_6_1 CVS branch at this point, to keep up-to-date with 6.1-RELEASE and its security updates. Can someone give me some advice (or point me to some documentation) on recompiling the -Release6.1 and then doing light maintenance (bug fixes, security updates) afterwards? See the URL given above. Security updates can often be applied in a variety of ways (for instance, an issue in tcsh(1) might mean you can get away with simply rebuilding and reinstalling tcsh(1), rather than world), but for now, until at least you're pretty comfortable with rebuilding world, it's probably best to simply rebuild world and the kernel each time a security update for 6.1-RELEASE comes out. Rebuilding world can seem pretty scary at first, but you'll soon be able to do it almost without thinking about it! Thanks, Adam -- Nick Withers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
