From: Mike '/m' 

>what happens when you recompile the entire system, it puts the new compile
>someplace different than the version it's running?

When compiling, yes, the resulting files are built first, then installed second.

>When the compile is done
>you don't have to reboot to use all the new compiled files?

If you want to replace the kernel, yes.  Userland programs do not require a
reboot.  You just stop and reload the new version.



If you patch and recompile just one program, then you just have to stop and
reload that one program.

  /m


On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:34:47 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>what happens when you recompile the entire system, it puts the new compile
>someplace different than the version it's running? When the compile is done
>you don't have to reboot to use all the new compiled files?
>
>Geo.
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:9q0e3vsnnb6ng3jm1isdcl9rb5b0vgsvcv{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> Yup, a six hours to recompile the entire operating system and all the
>> programs that were delivered with it.  The system running OpenBSD is a
>> 200MHz Pentium II with a slow 5400rpm IDE drive and 64 MB memory.
>> It's the firewall on my DSL line.
>>
>> To update a single program takes a few minutes, and no reboots.  It is
>> the reboot that is troublesome, because the compile can progress while
>> I'm still using the system.  But a reboot, well, I have to sit and
>> watch it, and wait until its done before I can do anything else.
>>
>>  /m
>
>

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