Subject: Re: updating, build and install order
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/20/2003 15:23:12
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>
> > mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
> > mv ../obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC/netbsd /
>
> With that, there's a chance that an inopportune power failure could
> render the system unbootable. Better (IMO):
>
> rm /netbsd.old
> ln /netbsd /netbsd.old
> sync; sync
> install -cpr ../obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC/netbsd /
> sync; sync
>
'make install' in the compile directory should do the right thing.
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