Hi misc,
i'm running 5.8-stable and am looking for a way automatically update my
machine in case of updates. Patches are fine, but they require manual
interaction and i would like to avoid that as much as possible.
Both FAQ 5 [1] and the stable-page [2] propose to clean up before trying
to (re)build the system, i.e. "make clean" or "rm -rf /usr/obj/*".
Patches, on the other hand, do not propose to cleanup before rebuilding
the changed parts (as far as i've seen).
So i was wondering if a pre-cleanup is required for a new -stable build,
especially if i would make sure that a new build is only performed if
the source files changed?
E.g. patch 5 for 5.8 affects the kernel and recommends to do
cd /usr/src/sys/arch/`machine`/conf
KK=`sysctl -n kern.osversion | cut -d# -f1`
config $KK
cd ../compile/$KK
make
make install
So no "make clean" here. Is it safe to assume that -stable-updates will
never require a cleanup?
Regards
Nils
[1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldKernel
[2] http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html
