Subject: Re: Building userland sources
To: Scott Crumpler <scrumpler@methylphreak.com>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/30/2005 20:41:38
On 7/30/05, Scott Crumpler <scrumpler@methylphreak.com> wrote:
> I've updated my kernel sources from 2.0 to 2.0.2, and I'd like to also
> rebuild the userland tools as well.  I used the build.sh script to
> actually build all of the sources and that went fine, but now I want to
> install them and I can't figure out which options.  When I used the -D
> option and set the destination directory to /, it warned me that this
> was only available if I also used the expert option.
>=20
> Would I be safe in installing the updated userland binaries that way?

You really only want to do that in single user mode.

I find it more convenient to do a release with build.sh, so you get
the .tgz sets. You can even use sysinst to upgrade that way if you
want, or do it by hand in single user mode.

Andy