From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 6 5:51:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E0114E06; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 05:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id NAA02406; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:45:42 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id OAA24343; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:42:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA28511; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:19:57 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id OAA02505; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:31:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37D3B395.3AEE8CD3@alcatel.fr> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:29:09 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates in latest build? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, the softupdates have been moved from /usr/src/contrib/sys to /usr/src/sys/contrib TfH Brad Knowles wrote: > > Folks, > > I built a machine on Friday w/ FreeBSD-STABLE. Of course, this > was just before certain fixes were committed that would allow it to > actually successfully build a kernel, so I went back today and > cvsup'ed to the latest version. > > However, it would appear that /usr/src/contrib/sys was not > included in this update, so any kernel that you might want to build > with softupdates enabled would not be possible. > > I got a copy of the necessary files from another machine I built > a little while back (and which did not need to be cvsup'ed in order > to be able to build a kernel), so I think I'll be able to get this to > work. > > However, the bigger question is why is this necessary? Did I > miss something fundamental with regards to cvsup that is explained > somewhere on or > , or perhaps > elsewhere in the manual? > > Thanks! > > -- > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > ____________________________________________________________________ > |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| > |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| > |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| > |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| > \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ > Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. > Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message