From owner-cvs-CVSROOT Mon Jan 16 18:44:43 1995 Return-Path: cvs-CVSROOT-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA24577 for cvs-CVSROOT-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 18:44:43 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA24538; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 18:44:21 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA00809; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 20:16:46 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199501162016.UAA00809@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 20:16:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: pst@shockwave.com, ache@astral.msk.su, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-CVSROOT@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199501162010.MAA01384@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jan 16, 95 12:10:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1128 Sender: cvs-CVSROOT-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said > The best solution I can see to this problem is to rename the current gnu > src tree to ognu, those supping can rename this locally before they sup > after the rename, create a new area gnu that is empty, start to import > and work in there. Once it is all moved to the new gnu area we can simply > stop supping the old one. > > This will create the anomoly that when you cvs co the old 2.0 release from > cvs on freefall you will end up with /usr/src/ognu. > > The other alternative would be to create /usr/src/ngnu and live with that > name forever, once all the bits are imported and set up in there correctly > simply stop supping src/gnu. (Same idea, only different names). > I guess that would be OK. If we call it /usr/src/gpl then the new name even makes more sense since not everything that we want separated out is gnu code. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK