From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 16 12:16:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94C1337B71A for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 24280 invoked by uid 0); 16 Mar 2001 20:16:25 -0000 Received: from pd950881e.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (217.80.136.30) by mail.gmx.net (mail08) with SMTP; 16 Mar 2001 20:16:25 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27918 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:58:51 +0100 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:58:51 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New KERNCONF option Message-ID: <20010316185851.C20830@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <3AB0C76D.D7FD7322@urx.com> <3AB187C0.88B6D724@babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3AB187C0.88B6D724@babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:25:52PM -0500 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 22:25 -0500, The Babbler wrote: > > Hmmm . . . I'm doing my first every buildworld stuff, having > just grabbed the kernel with cvsup for the first time. It's > cool I stumbled across this thread . . . . > > Where do I get a current /usr/src/UPDATING? In all the other replies (those I've gotten so far, I have a dialup line here ...) I missed the possibility to look at the code / doc without fetching all the stuff: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ This in combination with the cvs-all messages (archived and searchable, but I guess you soon subscribe to this list anyway) should give you an even better idea of how much you will gain from updating -- before updating and thus overwriting your source. And I honestly encourage you - and everyone else :) - to cvsup the CVS repo (maybe after getting familiar with the update steps) and update your /usr/src and /usr/ports trees from it locally. It only costs you some 1.5GB of disk space (cheap these days) and enables you to research very comfortably, fetch *any* revision known to work (i.e. step back a few days in case things get worse before getting better:) and to keep local changes / enhancements while following the project's progress. Plus you can use it for as many local machines as you like while only fetching things once from the FreeBSD project's servers. The advantages far outweight the cost, if you don't have a cheap permanent connection or don't want to hog other people's resources. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message