From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 1:59: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2266237B57C for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA13090; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:58:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <396D84CE.88B0C103@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:58:54 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Fedde Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mixing STABLE and manualy maintained distributions. References: <200007120516.e6C5Gv696823@fedde.littleton.co.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Fedde wrote: > > I'm hoping that some of you might have a comment on this. > > I track a few distributions from the net pretty closely (bind, sendmail, > perl, etc). Generaly I have a different version of these than is tagged > by RELENG-4. My current procedure is to synch with stable compile up to > functional then re-install my distributions. > > Is there a tool or technique that I could be using that is better > suited to this kind of environment than what I am doing? You need to look more carefully at the make.conf options. There are knobs to turn off the builds of all 3 things that you mentioned explicitly, and a lot more. Creation of additional knobs for other items of interest is always welcome (though not always accepted). You should also look carefully at the option of using a cvs repository and checking out your src tree. This will give you a mechanism for preserving local modifications that don't end up in the tree. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message