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Jeremy Faulkner wrote:

> Alina Groulx wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in 
>> a form that I recognize.  I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code 
>> but am not seeing it anywhere.  Can someone help me or perhaps let me 
>> know how I can download off the cvs site?
>>
>> Alina Groulx
>
>
> All of the ftp mirrors have it in the src directory of the release or 
> snapshot directory. This directory contains a shell script "install.sh".
> Set the DESTDIR environment variable and run the shell script. The 
> source, as it existed for that snapshot or release, will be installed 
> in the directory specified by DESTDIR. If you want the source code for 
> your current system, have cvsup installed and want to install the 
> source code into /usr/src you can simply:
>
> cvsup -h cvsup15.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard*
>

FreeBSD code is also available via anonymous cvs;
see the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook),
Appendix A, section 3.  The module you'd want (I
guess) is "src-all"

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.