Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 20:16:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: pst@shockwave.com, ache@astral.msk.su, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-CVSROOT@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <199501162016.UAA00809@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199501162010.MAA01384@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jan 16, 95 12:10:24 pm
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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
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