From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Oct 9 12:27:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4897D14D01; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 12:27:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA20500; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:12:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:12:19 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Mark Ovens Cc: Nik Clayton , Alfred Perlstein , Joel Sutton , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux convert... Message-ID: <19991009181219.A20278@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19991006234303.A28145@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19991007204945.A817@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19991007204945.A817@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:49:45PM +0100 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:49:45PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:43:03PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:20:26AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Ah, you aren't familiar with the FreeBSD much hyped > > > (or maybe not hyped enough... hrm) "make world" facility. > > > > > > http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html > > > > For future reference: the version of this that's now in the Handbook > > is the canonical version. The URL above will (this weekend) be replaced > > with a pointer to the Handbook. > > > > I used this doc when I did my first cvsup src-all. One thing that > should be changed is the reference to using dircmp.pl "which is > installed by default on FreeBSD versions 2.0 and above". Not on > 3.1 it ain't (and it doesn't run under perl5 either). This should > be changed to mergemaster (in the ports). Diffs! Diffs! Diffs! This is why it's now in the tree. I haven't got the time to maintain it properly now, so the 'community' can support it. send-pr as usual should do the trick. N -- PS: Sorry for the delay in replying. What with work, buying a house, moving in to the house, fixing the plumbing in the house, and paying the bills, I've been a little busy recently. I'm back to e-mail now, and catching up. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message