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On Sunday 14 January 2007 15:44, kbtrace wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2007-01-14 11:56, Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL
> >
> > No it doesn't.  CVSup will delete the files it doesn't know about, so
> > you should *SAVE a copy* of your favorite kernel config file outside of
> > the source tree and *copy* it into `/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf' after
> > CVSup finishes updates the sources.
>
> But in my practice, CVSup did nothing with my own kernel config file.
> In my memory, cvs did nothing with the files not in the source tree.

Generally speaking, CVSup will delete files it doesn't know about. However, 
all of the src/sys/<arch>/conf directories have .cvsignore files in them 
which prevents this behavior.

JN