From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 9:13:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from funnel.cisco.com (funnel.cisco.com [161.44.131.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E9937B422; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (bmcgover-pc.cisco.com [161.44.149.69]) by funnel.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA24795; Wed, 9 May 2001 12:13:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f49GDSO29151; Wed, 9 May 2001 12:13:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Message-Id: <200105091613.f49GDSO29151@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> To: George Reid Cc: Brian McGovern , questions@FreeBSD.org, greg@Thing-Fish.Kharkov.NET, bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com Subject: Re: your mail In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 May 2001 17:02:33 BST." Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 12:13:28 -0400 From: Brian McGovern Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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