make buildworld?

[Alistair Sutton]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 21:28, NevTide wrote:
> Simple question:
> 
> Does building and installing world under FreeBSD 5.2
> just overwrite older files, or does it completely
> replace the directories?

It will overwrite the old files.

> For example, if I include "NO_SENDMAIL" in my
> /etc/make.conf and "make buildworld" this should make
> the new system without sendmail, right?

Yes

> However, the default FreeBSD 5.2 comes with sendmail,
> so... will that old sendmail still exists on my system
> when I "make installworld", or is the whole base
> system replaced by the rebuilt one?

The binaries will still exist on your system.

You can either leave them there or go through and hand remove them. I
think mine are still left around from when I installed 5.0

Al
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