From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 13:05:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22488 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:05:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22451 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA05553; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:05:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Elliot Finley cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: adding drivers to the kernel In-Reply-To: <34be4615.1811111@castlenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Elliot Finley wrote: > If I want to add a RocketPort driver to the kernel (edit files.i386, > and put the sources somewhere they can be found), is there any way to > do this without having cvsup changing files.i386 back, and deleting > the source files? If you're not using CVS, you'll have to make a copy of the source tree, leaving the original for CVSup and working on the copy. If you use CVS, make your changes on a vendor branch. CVSup will simply ignore them and update the main branches. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major