From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 18:03:52 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 DF2D516A420 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:03:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D46243D6B for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:03:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from glenn-mobile.antimatter.net (216-70-228-172.cust.telepacific.net [216.70.228.172]) (authenticated bits=0) by cobalt.antimatter.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OI3jiw001256 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:03:46 -0700 X-MailKey: purple frogs are falling from the sky Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20050824110315.04ee8db0@cobalt.antimatter.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:04:10 -0700 To: Joel Hatton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <200508241315.j7ODFDjh011725@app.auscert.org.au> References: <200508241315.j7ODFDjh011725@app.auscert.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 18:03:53 -0000 At 06:15 AM 8/24/2005, 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 :) > >Or should I be doing this properly and checking out a complete CVS tree? man development It gives pretty specific details on doing the sort of thing that you want. -Glenn >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"