From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 20 8:26:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tholian.rsasecurity.com (mail.rsasecurity.com [204.167.112.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F9D137B405 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:26:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdtihq24.securitydynamics.com by tholian.rsasecurity.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 20 Dec 2001 16:26:14 UT Received: from ebola.securitydynamics.com (ebola.securid.com [192.168.7.4]) by sdtihq24.securid.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01735 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:26:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from spirit.dynas.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.securitydynamics.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id fBKGQMS23388 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:26:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 4289 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2001 16:26:21 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (HELO mikko.rsa.com) (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 20 Dec 2001 16:26:21 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by mikko.rsa.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBKGQKj12450; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:26:20 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200112201626.fBKGQKj12450@mikko.rsa.com> To: wayneclubin@yahoo.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About the sources Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <20011220072417.19641.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >Do tarballs exist of the source trees? If not then why >not? I think it would be convenient to be able to ftp >a tarball of the source tree of say 4.4_release, >unroll it and compile it. The same for stable and The distribution files *are* tarballs, albeit chopped up into floppy-sized pieces. Go to $ftpmirror:/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/src and have a look at "install.sh". >current maybe, but for sure it would be convenient for >the release versions. This way the person does not >have to fuss with cvs and cvsup config files etc >etc.... Cvsup is dead simple, and an incredibly easy way to keep your source tree up to date. This way the person does not have to fuss with ftp, tarballs, temporary storage etc etc ... :-) $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message