From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 3 21:35:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05373 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 21:35:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05356 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 21:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA14737; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 00:34:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 00:34:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Ollivier Robert cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics In-Reply-To: <19981004015236.A6399@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Chuck Robey: > > Can I ask howcome the stuff unpacks into the contrib_softupdates > > directory, instead of src/sys/contrib/softupdates, or > > Because the standard way for CVS when it extracts a module named "foo" is > to put it inside a directory named "foo" hence the "contrib_softupdates". > > You can change it upon checkout by specifying "-d bar" to put it into "bar". > > When you extract the whole /usr/src tree you don't notice it because the > module there is named "src". See "CVSROOT/modules". > > Use the -d dir option to create a directory called > dir for the working files, instead of using the > module name. Unless you also use -N, the paths > created under dir will be as short as possible. I thought it went into the path specified by the modules file ... I'm glad that (for once) I didn't assume (I was thinking Jordan was wrong). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message