From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 09:08:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21046 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21036 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:08:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (lxpxds.lx.ehu.es [158.227.99.196]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA10341; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:07:32 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <36963B51.9932270A@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 18:07:29 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" CC: FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES References: <003a01be3b1c$250f5f00$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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