On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
I've always updated my -RELEASE systems using the traditional method
so it seems it's no different other than perhaps updating more
frequently and deciding whether or not both kernel code and userland
code needs to be rebuilt together.
It certainly seems a bad idea for me as someone with a lot to learn,
to patch specific parts of the source tree and rebuild those parts as
something is bound to go wrong at some point for me.
In addition to what others have suggested, the devel/ccache port can
seriously reduce world and kernel compilation time by caching results.
Stuff that hasn't changed comes out of cache rather than from a
recompile. A buildworld every few days usually takes only about a
fourth of the time it would take without ccache. Unfortunately, so far
it only has this extreme an effect with gcc, not so much with clang.
I usually use 4G of cache space; haven't tested to see how much is
actually needed. Setting CCACHE_COMPRESS=yes fits more files in the
cache. In my tests, there was no speed penalty.
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