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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:43:51 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        kstewart@urx.com, Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>, Torben Baecker <torben.b@gmx.net>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New KERNCONF option
Message-ID:  <20010315194351.A8706@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <3AB187C0.88B6D724@babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:25:52PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103150836050.10995-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net> <3AB0C76D.D7FD7322@urx.com> <3AB187C0.88B6D724@babbleon.org>

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:25:52PM -0500, The Babbler wrote:
>=20
> Hmmm . . . I'm doing my first every buildworld stuff, having just
> grabbed the kernel with cvsup for the first time.  It's cool I stumbled
> across this thread . . . .
>=20
> Where do I get a current /usr/src/UPDATING?
>=20
> The one I have seems to still be the one from when I installed
> 4.2-RELEASE, so it has directions which are (apparently) obsolete.
>=20
> Wouldn't it make more sense for a kernel "cvsup" to go ahead and update
> the /usr/src/UPDATING file, since the FreeBSD handbook says to read that
> for up-to-date directions on building the kernel?

Wait a minute here.  Are you saying you only cvsup'd the kernel?  You
aren't allowed to do that.  You must update all of your src tree at
once, nothing else is supported.  This would certaintly go a long way
towards explaining why you are having trouble.

-- Brooks

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