Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:56:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Dave H." <hummel@www.snybuf.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS & /cdrom/usr/filesys/src Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970731195228.11158F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970728094530.12123A-100000@www.buffalostate.edu>
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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Dave H. wrote: > My 2.1.7 cdrom is missing all files and subdirectories on filesys/src. My > 2.1.6 is complete, so I'm assuming that the cdrom is defective. Can > someone verify that this is the case and that filesys/src/* is supposed to > be included? I believe the CD was pressed incorrectly, so those directories are missing. All of them are busted. :( > Next: The whole CVS concept per the manual is not quite sinking in through > my thick skull. Is the following correct: I can purchase the cdrom, > install sources, and then CVS the sources to make them -current rather > than CVSing the whole source(?) I'm assuming that by doing this I'll save > a whole ton of 14.4 download time as I would only be downloading a few > updates(?) Or am I better of just CVSing from the get go and saving my $ ? Yeah, the idea is to copy the CVS tree to the local machine, then install & use CVSup to update the sources to the state it is right now. You don't have to get what you don't want to; if you don't want the source to usr.sbin for instance you don't have to get it. But if you're going to bother, you might as well get all of it. Unfortunately, from 2.1.7, you're a ways off of the -CURRENT tree, so you're looking at grabbing a good percentage of it anyway. 33.6 modems are *really* cheap nowadays....:-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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