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To: John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>
cc: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Request for next release 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Mar 1998 10:38:34 +1100."
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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 16:37:28 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
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> What exactly do you use the unpacked source distribution for? I tried
> using the union filesystem to mount it so I could build directly off
> the CD. But union is broken so I ended up having to copy the source

lndir, from the XFree86 distribution, is your friend.  You can build
a link tree to it which uses a fair number of inodes still but nowhere
near as much free space.

> onto a harddisk anyway. Same with the CVS repository, you can't use
> it on the CD and have to copy to harddisk. Also it seems faster to

setenv CVSREADONLYFS yes
setenv CVSROOT /cdrom/CVSROOT
<work away>

					Jordan

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