On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Julio Merino wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 14:15:23 +0100
> Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 13:24:22 -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> >
> > > In fact, if you try to build using the top-level Makefile and without
> > > setting DESTDIR, ...
> >
> > I am still confused about the safest way to rebuild NetBSD. In FreeBSD
> > I do 'make buildworld' and if that finishes without problems a
> > 'make installworld'. What is a safe way to rebuild NetBSD?
>
> Using a DESTDIR, and then making the tgz sets (by "hand") to install them
> over the system. This way, if the build fails, you will broke nothing.

Why not use build.sh to make a release? It will make the sets for you. And
if you do an unpriv'd build, you need to do something to get the
permissions right.

> Take a look at pkgsrc/sysutils/sysbuild, which eases things (specially
> building the sets).

I'll need to look at that.

Take care,

Bill