[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Caleb Shay wrote:

> BSD "make world" == Gentoo "emerge -e world"

Sort of.  Just to clarify, "make world" is outdated terminology, but it
just happens that everyone knows what it means.  These days, it's more
like:

cd /usr/src
cvs update -P
make build install

That upgrades the userland binaries to the latest versions in CVS.  The
kernel sources are uprgaded at the same time, but it is not
built/installed.  That has to be done separately.

> However, if it only rebuilds things that have newer versions, that
> would be "emerge -u world"

Well, if you're tracking the CURRENT release (as opposed to the STABLE)
release of your BSD-of-choice, there are literally system-wide upgrades
(libraries, headers, userland binaries) on a near-daily basis.

However, if you do a "make" after a "make build", you're essentially
doing an upgrade, since only the affected binaries are rebuilt.

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Jonathan Patschke  *) "Saying 8MB of RAM doesn't do as much anymore is
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                   *)  did in 1988."                    --George Adkins