=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/Attic/snapshots.html,v retrieving revision 1.7 retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.7 -r1.8 --- www/Attic/snapshots.html 1996/12/16 19:28:55 1.7 +++ www/Attic/snapshots.html 1997/02/10 01:59:16 1.8 @@ -18,25 +18,6 @@
-Binary snapshots are supposed to be easy to use and install. To ease -their use, they are always statically linked. Developers have built -these distributions by doing - -
- setenv LDSTATIC -static - cd /usr/src - make obj - make build - setenv DESTDIR /dir - make snapshot -- -
-If you find a snapshot that is dynamically linked, please inform -deraadt@openbsd.org. -
- -In each snapshot, all tar.gz files are rooted at /. If you are a trusting kind of person you can use the following script. However it is suggested that you not blindly install snapshots in this fashion. @@ -49,43 +30,19 @@
-The tar program you use must be GNU tar or some other newer -posix-compliant version. The tar files contain directory information -in a new format, in particular dev.tar.gz contains all sorts of files -that an older version of tar would break on. Also, one should be able -to use just about any version of pax instead. +The tar program you use must be GNU tar, OpenBSD tar (based on pax) or +some other newer posix-compliant version. The tar files contain +directory information in a new format, in particular dev.tar.gz +contains all sorts of files that an older version of tar would break +on. Also, one should be able to use just about any version of pax +instead.
-Real Releases, when they are made, will not be statically linked. -
- --If you desire dynamic binaries on your machine, do the following: -
- -- cd /usr/src - make obj - make build -- -
-This will rebuild your machine's binaries in the normal way. of -course, before doing this later step of rebuilding all the binaries on -your machine, realize that source code quality can vary from day to -day -- on some days the make build might fail and you might run into -nasty problems. -
- -