Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:04:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's the best way to deal with freebsd-current? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960115125237.2403B-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9601151621.AA01771@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
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On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Marty Leisner wrote: > > I'm running through a proxy ftp server to the internet, so I can't > run sup... > > I want to start running a "current" kernel... > > I got a kernel about a week ago, but it wasn't consistent > (it was missing a header file...) > The other method that folks use is ctm, but if you do that, you have to get the entire source tree, not just /sys. There isn't any way to be more selective. There's a handbook section on ctm, and it isn't hard to use, you can even get mail to automate it for you. The only hard part is the first big gulp of sources, a whale of a big file, nearly 30 megs, and Poul kinda resists the idea of breaking it up any. If you can't take that in one bite, last time I needed to do that, I asked here and had about 5 volunteers with ftp space to do it for me. Luckily, that only needs to be done to bootstrap yourself to current. Sometimes your first make world under current will blow up, because there are some tools that have to be made first, and installed, for this to work. As a suggestion, I would manually make /usr/src/usr.bin/install first, then do that same thing for the rpc and rpcsvc dirs of include, then the rpcgen, then try the make world. Don't send complaints here, Marty, they go to the FreeBSD-current list. You should join that list, and the commit list too. Stuff like the info on how to handle the rpc stuff was posted there, and reading it will save you embarrassment on later complaints. You can't expect a kernel to work, if it's too far out of date with the general system, because a lot of things in user-land, like ps, have to track the kernel structures in order to work. I think you really want to either do a make world, or forget just running a current kernel. > > > > marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com > Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic > Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001 > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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