Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:04:10 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Joel Hatton <freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup multiple RELENGs? Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050824110315.04ee8db0@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <200508241315.j7ODFDjh011725@app.auscert.org.au> References: <200508241315.j7ODFDjh011725@app.auscert.org.au>
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At 06:15 AM 8/24/2005, Joel Hatton wrote: >Hi, > >Situation - I have a machine that I use to build the base system for >others. I'd like to be able to have multiple copies of /usr/src for >different releases - in particular, RELENG_5_3 and RELENG_5_4. Rather than >just changing my RELENG in the supfile and blowing away the tree each time >I thought I could maintain multiple source trees. One trivial way that >came to mind would be to copy /usr/src to /usr/RELENG_5_3 and >/usr/RELENG_5_4 and replace /usr/src with a symlink that points to the one >I'm using at the time - I don't know if this makes perfect sense, it's >just an idea :) > >Or should I be doing this properly and checking out a complete CVS tree? man development It gives pretty specific details on doing the sort of thing that you want. -Glenn >thanks, >-- Joel Hatton -- >Security Analyst | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 >AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 >The University of Queensland | WWW: www.auscert.org.au >Qld 4072 Australia | Email: auscert@auscert.org.au >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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