Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:58:01 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advice on compiling a new kernel & upgrading to the latest sources Message-ID: <45AA9959.8070406@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200701141552.57011.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <73161.84816.qm@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> <20070114202517.GA3404@kobe.laptop> <45AA9619.8050103@gmail.com> <200701141552.57011.lists@jnielsen.net>
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John Nielsen wrote: > On Sunday 14 January 2007 15:44, kbtrace wrote: > >> Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >>> On 2007-01-14 11:56, Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL >>>> >>> No it doesn't. CVSup will delete the files it doesn't know about, so >>> you should *SAVE a copy* of your favorite kernel config file outside of >>> the source tree and *copy* it into `/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf' after >>> CVSup finishes updates the sources. >>> >> But in my practice, CVSup did nothing with my own kernel config file. >> In my memory, cvs did nothing with the files not in the source tree. >> > > Generally speaking, CVSup will delete files it doesn't know about. However, > all of the src/sys/<arch>/conf directories have .cvsignore files in them > which prevents this behavior. > > JN This line in the cvsup file changes that behavior (from <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html>): *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress Don't want stuff deleted when cvsup runs (not wise, but you can do it)?, remove the delete keyword in your cvsup file. -Garrett
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