Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 07:21:44 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, dfr@nlsystems.com, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <199808072121.HAA10845@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199808071441.KAA19864@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Aug 7, 98 10:41:45 am"
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:36:47 +1000 (EST), John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> said: > > > Better still, change config to not require write access to the source > > tree, defaulting it's path to /sys and allowing that to be changed > > by a switch. Then you could do: > > You mean like: > > # cd /sys > # rmdir compile > # mkdir /usr/obj/sys/compile > # ln -s !$ . No. That still means making a modification to the source tree. I'd prefer the source tree to stay read-only. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137
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