Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:35:35 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just CVS (was Re: CVS question, sendmail, named) Message-ID: <199702161835.MAA02796@nexgen.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> of "Sun, 16 Feb 1997 10:26:00 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970216101745.23738B-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
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Chris Timmons replied: > > Hmmmm.... doing a 'make release' without a CVS repository might be a > little hard. It checks out a revision of the source for the release you > are building from CVS. However, you could certainly look through > /usr/src/release/Makefile to see if you could short-circuit things a bit > to use a copy of your local sources (skipping CVS.) I'll look into hacking release's Makefile. > One other thing you will want to know if you start rolling your own > releases: you'll need to be running a kernel with the vn pseudo-device, > as in: > > pseudo-device vn #Vnode driver (turns a file into a device) > > If you have a slow machine and start a make release without running a > kernel that has this compiled in - you will get an unpleasant surprise :( I read in release/Makefile that I needed vn. Forgot if that was before or after something happened that I needed it for. Whatever the case I don't remember any tremendously unpleasant surprises. Maybe I added vn to my kernel in time. Or somebody detected the lack of vn in the Makefile and aborted? > You don't NEED to have the CD-ROM to get the CVS repository, particularly > if you are in a LAN environment and have 56KB or greater connectivity. > Doing the initial download over a slow dialup is likely to be > unsatisfying. Ah, I don't have that kind of network connection at home and at work its thru a firewall that doesn't do socks. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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