Usability Of NOCLEAN

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Mar 6 14:32:57 PST 2004


On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:37:29PM -0600, Peter Schultz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just curious about the usability of NOCLEAN.  If I've just updated 
> world and things are fine with the installation, is it considered safe 
> to use NOCLEAN?  A couple updates to libc came in this morning just 
> after I installed a fresh world and I'm wondering what others do in 
> cases like this.

You can often use it, except when you can't.  It's mostly safe when
you only have minor changes, but at the first sign of trouble you
should re-run without NOCLEAN, and never report a build failure from a
NOCLEAN world because it's likely to be your fault :-)

Kris
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