Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:19:58 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do I need alternate architecture source in /usr/src/sys ?? Message-ID: <20040303071958.GC96929@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <40451AF4.2080705@daleco.biz> References: <40451AF4.2080705@daleco.biz>
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:38:28PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wro=
te:
> Cvsupping a 5.2 box after today's Advisory,
> I noticed (perhaps for the first time), that
> files were downloaded for other architectures
> (amd64, sparc64, etc.).
Those are the arch specific parts of the kernel, which is a very small
part of the total sources. You need them about as much as you need
the driver code for devices not present on your system: ie. not at
all. However, it's going to be a lot more effort going round and
deleting those files than any possible benefit from the small amount
of filesystem space you'll recover.
Cheers,
Matthew
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