From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 02:17:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA20767 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 02:17:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA20758 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 02:17:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tcrOo-0003xuC; Thu, 18 Jan 96 02:16 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00360; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:16:39 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hacker's list) Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:18:04 PST." <9601180918.AA17334@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:16:38 +0100 Message-ID: <358.821960198@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > With CVS now public, some people are attempting to practice `roll their own ', > > so if CVS is at all avoidable (like it was in FreeBSD-1.*), it would help > > more people with less disc space practice. > > > > Maybe I'm missing something here, but in 2.0-R I was playing with making > my own floppies, and I just replaced the cvs commands with a script that > make a directory and created hard links to the files in /usr/src (I had a > big user partition). This got me past the cvs thing. I did hit other > road blocks though. > > So what's the big deal? Anyone daring enough to play with building a > release should be able to edit a Makefile. Amen. I have no problems with helping a guy like you who has an entrepeneuring spirit and reads the files. Good luck. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.