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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:22:39 +1000
From:      Jacob Rhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu
Subject:   Re: Safe Use of cvsup
Message-ID:  <200210091022.39490.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <200210081920.g98JKBw58996@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
References:  <200210081920.g98JKBw58996@dc.cis.okstate.edu>

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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 05:20, Martin McCormick wrote:
> =09The only thing I was thinking of was that there might be
> links or something else not obvious that would make the restored
> /usr/src useless.

The best option if you loose your /usr/src is not to cvsup from scratch, =
but=20
to install the source of your latest cd or downloaded tgz files, and then=
 use=20
cvsup to bring them up to date. (You can do it from scratch, but if you h=
ave=20
an older copy lying around it will save you some download time so you don=
t=20
have to upload ALL the files).

If course if you have a T1 connection to the internet then it may actuall=
y be=20
faster to just cvsup it from scratch.... *grin*

Regards,
Jacob

Jacob Rhoden            Phone: +61 3 9844 6102
ITS Division            Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au
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