Subject: Re: Did I miss a thread on build.sh and the "-E" flag?
To: Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/16/2002 13:06:46
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ronald van der Pol wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:51:42 -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
> > > I thought we were supposed to use build.sh? I am still confused about
> > > the "right" way to upgrade from sources.
> >
> > You can also:
> >
> > build.sh -D /foo .....
> > cd distrib/sets
> > make DESTDIR=/foo INSTALLDIR=/ installsets
> >
> > Yes, build.sh is the right thing to do.
>
> Thanks, I will try this next time. 'make ... installsets' does
> not overwrite my config files in /etc?

I don't know. I hope not.

> So, this is the recipe:
> build.sh -D /foo
> cd distrib/sets
> make DESTDIR=/foo INSTALLDIR=/ installsets
> etcupdate

Take care,

Bill