Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:02:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where are the 4.7 release sources? Message-ID: <20021023180211.19991.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20021023165419.GA20323@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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--- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:22:45AM -0700, Wayne > Lubin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/src/ > > > > has funny looking files that end in .aa .aw and > stuff > > like that. Where is the c code? > > Those are actually the c sources which > /stand/sysinstall would > download --- they are a series of tar(1) files split > into chunks. You > can grab all of those files and then run the > install.sh script found > in that directory to install the contents to > /usr/src. The source > code you'll get in this case is exactly the code > used to build > 4.7-RELEASE. > > However, that's a slightly unusual way of getting > hold of the system > sources. Typically nowadays to grab the sources > wholesale you would > install the net/cvsup port and use that to grab > whatever sources you > want from the FreeBSD cvs. See > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > If you only want one or two files then go to > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/, where > you can pull down > any version of any file ever used to build FreeBSD. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > 26 The Paddocks > > Savill Way > > Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 > Bucks., SL7 1TH UK I am looking for the ftp server where I can ftp in and grab the sources and ports for 4.7 release in the same way you can with current by going to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/ and ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/ After all, all cvsup, or cvs, or CTM does is go and updates your /usr/ports and /usr/src folder, and maybe your doc folder, doesn't it? In other words I am currently not interested in using cvsup, or CTM, or anything else. I am only interested in using ftp. Wayne __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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