Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:46, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> Thanks for the tip : I thought of this work-around, but I was not sure of
> the syntax and anyway I wanted to restart anew.

Fair enough, I needed it to actually rebuild stuff - I couldn't get Qt rebuilt 
without it.
Of course after all that effort the HD in my laptop died so I had to start 
fresh anyway :-/

> The use of a jail to rebuild the system reduced the downtime to just a
> reboot, and I don't have to think about obsolete libraries in either the
> core system or the ports (and it only "costs" around 5Gigs of hard disk for
> a second, spare partition which is used when swapping OS's)

Yeah, it's a neatidea :)

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