From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 18 16:33:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09147 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 16:33:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09105 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 16:33:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23936; Mon, 18 May 1998 16:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd023929; Mon May 18 23:25:41 1998 Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 16:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Kirk McKusick cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Next 3.0 SNAP CD coming up. In-Reply-To: <199805182143.OAA14538@flamingo.McKusick.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks for the clarification.. that begs the question, can we put it in the CVS tree in the same way.. (i.e the wrong place with README) I'm getting nervouse about not having this under source control.. (and it would let others (including you) get at it easier and check out the changes..) julian On Mon, 18 May 1998, Kirk McKusick wrote: > Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:17:33 -0700 (PDT) > From: Julian Elischer > To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > cc: current@freebsd.org, mckusick@mckusick.com > Subject: Re: Next 3.0 SNAP CD coming up. > In-Reply-To: <17583.895518409@time.cdrom.com> > > One question is: > should/can the soft update files be there somewhere.. > If possible they could be on the CD but in a different directory > soemwhere. i.e. not in the 'correct' place. > > Yes, it may be on the CD as long as it is not in the kern source > directory and is not compiled into the distributed kernel (if there > even is such a thing). There can be a README in the kernel area > that points to the soft update sources and explains how to use them > and the restrictions on their use. The reason to place the files > outside the kernel area is to avoid contaminating that source pool > (i.e., someone accidentally grabbing it unaware of what they were > doing). > > Kirk McKusick > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message