Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 18:07:29 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <36963B51.9932270A@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <003a01be3b1c$250f5f00$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>
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Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > There is a nice readme file in the contrib directory mentioned in LINT. > Follow the directions in that instead. It states to link the files instead > of copy them. That makes more sense to me because when a CVSUP takes place, > your source is automatically updated (a copy would still be old). > This is exactly what I'm referring to. That README (nice, indeed) is hidden into the /usr/src tree. I think that it should be transformed in a tutorial, handbook chapter, or perhaps a FAQ (I mean, the answer to a new FAQ :-) ). BTW, I have enabled softupdates and it works fine. No problems. -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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