Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:15:59 +0400 From: Stepan Rakhimov <stepan_r@mail.ru> To: Joel Hatton <freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup multiple RELENGs? Message-ID: <430C730F.1000305@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <200508241315.j7ODFDjh011725@app.auscert.org.au> References: <200508241315.j7ODFDjh011725@app.auscert.org.au>
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Joel Hatton wrote: > Hi, > > Situation - I have a machine that I use to build the base system for > others. I'd like to be able to have multiple copies of /usr/src for > different releases - in particular, RELENG_5_3 and RELENG_5_4. Rather than > just changing my RELENG in the supfile and blowing away the tree each time > I thought I could maintain multiple source trees. One trivial way that > came to mind would be to copy /usr/src to /usr/RELENG_5_3 and > /usr/RELENG_5_4 and replace /usr/src with a symlink that points to the one > I'm using at the time - I don't know if this makes perfect sense, it's > just an idea :) May be it's better to make different supfiles for different RELENGs and change the "*default prefix" to the directory you want /src to be downloaded? > > Or should I be doing this properly and checking out a complete CVS tree? > > thanks, > -- Joel Hatton -- > Security Analyst | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 > AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 > The University of Queensland | WWW: www.auscert.org.au > Qld 4072 Australia | Email: auscert@auscert.org.au > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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