From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 30 18:54:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECFA15502; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA07057; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA08285; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sometime this weekend (July 3-5) I am planning to repository-copy the soft-updates sources from their current location in "src/contrib/sys/softupdates" to "src/sys/contrib/softupdates". All of you using soft-updates will need to adjust your symbolic links in "src/sys/ufs/ffs" after this change has taken effect. The reasons for the move have been discussed before. Briefly, we want to move all of the kernel code to "src/sys" so that the sys tree will be more self-contained. Kirk McKusick has agreed to this change -- in fact he favors it. I'm going to do this in both the -current and RELENG_3 branches. Here is the 1-question FAQ: Q. These symbolic links are a pain. Why don't you just edit "src/sys/conf/files" appropriately? A. The license terms for soft-updates do not permit that. See the FreeBSD mailing list archives (the FreeBSD-current list, probably) for more details. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message