From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 13:38:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDCF16A41F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:38:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stepan_r@mail.ru) Received: from mx6.mail.ru (mx6.mail.ru [194.67.23.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A2143D53 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:38:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stepan_r@mail.ru) Received: from [212.44.92.174] (port=60838 helo=[192.168.184.133]) by mx6.mail.ru with esmtp id 1E7vSV-0005td-00; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:38:27 +0400 Message-ID: <430C730F.1000305@mail.ru> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:15:59 +0400 From: Stepan Rakhimov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050722) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Hatton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200508241315.j7ODFDjh011725@app.auscert.org.au> In-Reply-To: <200508241315.j7ODFDjh011725@app.auscert.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: cvsup multiple RELENGs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:38:30 -0000 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"