Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:58:51 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New KERNCONF option Message-ID: <20010316185851.C20830@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <3AB187C0.88B6D724@babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:25:52PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103150836050.10995-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net> <3AB0C76D.D7FD7322@urx.com> <3AB187C0.88B6D724@babbleon.org>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 22:25 -0500, The Babbler wrote:
>
> Hmmm . . . I'm doing my first every buildworld stuff, having
> just grabbed the kernel with cvsup for the first time. It's
> cool I stumbled across this thread . . . .
>
> Where do I get a current /usr/src/UPDATING?
In all the other replies (those I've gotten so far, I have a
dialup line here ...) I missed the possibility to look at the
code / doc without fetching all the stuff:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
This in combination with the cvs-all messages (archived and
searchable, but I guess you soon subscribe to this list anyway)
should give you an even better idea of how much you will gain
from updating -- before updating and thus overwriting your
source.
And I honestly encourage you - and everyone else :) - to cvsup
the CVS repo (maybe after getting familiar with the update steps)
and update your /usr/src and /usr/ports trees from it locally.
It only costs you some 1.5GB of disk space (cheap these days) and
enables you to research very comfortably, fetch *any* revision
known to work (i.e. step back a few days in case things get worse
before getting better:) and to keep local changes / enhancements
while following the project's progress. Plus you can use it for
as many local machines as you like while only fetching things
once from the FreeBSD project's servers. The advantages far
outweight the cost, if you don't have a cheap permanent
connection or don't want to hog other people's resources.
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