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Date:      Thu, 05 Mar 1998 16:37:28 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>
Cc:        Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for next release 
Message-ID:  <13110.889144648@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Mar 1998 10:38:34 %2B1100." <34FF377A.181A4B33@scitec.com.au> 

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> What exactly do you use the unpacked source distribution for? I tried
> using the union filesystem to mount it so I could build directly off
> the CD. But union is broken so I ended up having to copy the source

lndir, from the XFree86 distribution, is your friend.  You can build
a link tree to it which uses a fair number of inodes still but nowhere
near as much free space.

> onto a harddisk anyway. Same with the CVS repository, you can't use
> it on the CD and have to copy to harddisk. Also it seems faster to

setenv CVSREADONLYFS yes
setenv CVSROOT /cdrom/CVSROOT
<work away>

					Jordan

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