Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:14:53 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to grab source tarball? Message-ID: <20090415231453.b806eaad.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <946084FF-AA8E-4DF0-B89F-4CA02E5E572D@identry.com> References: <946084FF-AA8E-4DF0-B89F-4CA02E5E572D@identry.com>
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0400, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory > is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball > from a FreeBSD mirror". > [...] > But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or where it > is on the mirror. Choose a local mirror. Then, for example, go into the directory ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.1-RELEASE/src/ and see the source files. Download all of them and install them through install.sh. This will populate /usr/src with these sources. > Basically, I want to get to the point where I can type: > > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > > And build FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Once you have the sources installed properly (even without updating them to the lastest 7.1-RELEASE-p or 7.1-STABLE) this should be possible. > I'd like to download the source to the server, rather than inserting > a CD in the machine, since I"m 2 hours away from the machine. Then the way mentioned above will be no problem. You can use the CLI ftp to automate it. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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