Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 12:13:28 -0400 From: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com> To: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org, greg@Thing-Fish.Kharkov.NET, bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <200105091613.f49GDSO29151@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 May 2001 17:02:33 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105091657120.1529-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk>
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The initial download is painful in either case. However, the other advantage to what I've done is that you can make local changes to your repository (such as a different GENERIC kernel), and cvsup doesn't clobber it on the next update. Branches, in particular, are a nice feature, as you can then treat the 'base code' as a vendor branch. On the plus-side, if you want to build from a known distribution, you can use /usr/src from the CD as your import source code, which saves that portion of the download. What'd be really nice, though (anyone hearing this?), would be able to build a release from static source, and put the work on the release engineer to make sure the code is what they want, rather than relying on the process to do a CVS checkout for you. -Brian > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Brian McGovern wrote: > > > What you do need to do, however, is clone off the bits you really want. Fo r > > instance, you'll need to get the src, doc, and ports modules for, say 4.3 > > release, and then you'll have to import the code in to your own CVS reposi tory, > > which you'll have to point the release at. > > That sounds like much more hassle than doing it the Proper Way(tm) and > using CVSup to mirror the repository/bits of the repository you want, but > I've never even considered your method. I doubt it's suitable for the > average CVS newbie, though. > > I just mirror the repo on a 28.8k modem (yes, they *do* still exist), but > then I suppose it's overkill if all you want is one release. > > greid > -- > +-------------------+---------------------+ > | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | > | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | > +-------------------+---------------------+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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