No 8.0-BETA3 for ia64 & powerpc

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Aug 3 09:07:04 UTC 2009


On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 07:08:58PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Aug 2, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> 
> >>Yes, definitely. Just make sure to run...
> >>	# make delete-old
> >>	# make delete-old-libs
> >>	# mergemaster -U
> >>...after the install. That should cleanup some old stuff
> >>that may prevent good testing.

shoudn't this be documented, e.g. in section 24.7, Rebuilding "world", of
the FBSD handbook?

I wasn't aware of these make targets or of "-U" option. I don't think
it's mentioned in the handbook. Perhaps I could've avoided some
problems with system updates..

many thanks

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