On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:15:28PM +1100, Paul NCC/CS wrote:
> > 
> > Ok thks Manuel,
> > that reassures me somewhat. It actually wiped, eterm, gv,
> > windowmaker and xscreensaver that I have discovered
> > so far.
> > 
> > It's good that it intended to rebuild these things but
> > my goodness I didn't expect days of downtime for these
> > bits of my system to be rebuilt. From home on a slow
> > link with as ss5 it could be days before these things
> > are back. I love NetBSD but mein got it spins me out
> > sometimes.
> > 
> > Also since I can't keep the net connection up for too
> > long I had to disconnect last night before bed and then
> > of course the mozilla build stopped when it couldn't
> > download the next thing it needed.
> > 
> > My question is if I type "make update" in www/mozilla
> > will it remember that it blew away 5 applications and
> > rebuild them?, or will I have to rebuild them all manually
> > since the build last night was interrupted?
> 
> Yes, it should. 


the large amount of compiling needed to bring a sparc system up with all
the packages i like is why i usually use the binary packages from
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6/sparc/
and fill in any missing ones by building from the netbsd-1-6 branch of
pkgsrc.

-dan