Re: Chap 35. Updating an existing system from sources (xorg?)

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 28 de octubre de 2024 13:54:53 CET, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> escribió:
>Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
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>>  If I understand right, with "-x" and "distribution" both the system and xorg will be compiled and sets generated.
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>I would expect that
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>> And for installing:
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>> ./build.sh -x -j4 -O ../obj -T ../tools install=/ will install only xorg or both xorg and the system?
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>-x means "also x", not "only x".
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>However, I am really unclear on install like that in terms of
>overwriting etc.  My build.sh command looks like
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>  ./build.sh -m amd64 -j12 -x -u -U -O /usr/obj/gdt-10/amd64 -T /usr/obj/gdt-10/tools -D /usr/obj/gdt-10/destdir/amd64 -R /usr/obj/gdt-10/releasedir -X /n0/gdt/NetBSD-10/xsrc release
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>and then I install the release sets (often on a different machine) with
>"INSTALL-NetBSD" from pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage (which is a shell script
>with a lot of coments).
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>> And with  "-u" It does not compile everything but only the source that has changed from the last compilation, is not it?
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>I think it's more that it will decline to rm the objdirs first, which
>amounts to pretty much the same thing.

Thank you very much for the explanation Greg, it is clear to me now.

Regards.