Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 21:27:53 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw@unete.cl> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: working on -CURRENT from -STABLE? Message-ID: <20070527022753.GL98411@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200705262154.11782.dmw@unete.cl> References: <200705262114.20350.dmw@unete.cl> <4658DDEA.4090204@u.washington.edu> <200705262154.11782.dmw@unete.cl>
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In the last episode (May 26), Daniel Molina Wegener said: > On Saturday 26 May 2007 21:24:58 Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > How can I install -CURRENT from -STABLE and work on > > > -CURRENT code from -STABLE? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Simply put that's not possible to set it up and work on CURRENT > > -code, if you need to test CURRENT, because the > > userland and kernel get installed in the same spots. > > > > It's much wiser to just install CURRENT and STABLE on separate > > partitions / disks and work from there, if you don't have access to > > virtual machines. > > Thanks, now... what can I use as virtual machine?. I mean, I > need something with write access to the virtual machine filesystem, > to work on the -CURRENT code from -STABLE, I think that I will be > losing time compiling editors (emacs) and user environments two times > (Xorg, KDE, etc.). qemu works for me; you can NFS-mount host to guest and vice versa to manipulate files. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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