Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:16:38 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> 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 Message-ID: <358.821960198@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:18:04 PST." <9601180918.AA17334@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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> > 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.
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