Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:52:56 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advice on compiling a new kernel & upgrading to the latest sources Message-ID: <200701141552.57011.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <45AA9619.8050103@gmail.com> References: <73161.84816.qm@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> <20070114202517.GA3404@kobe.laptop> <45AA9619.8050103@gmail.com>
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On Sunday 14 January 2007 15:44, kbtrace wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2007-01-14 11:56, Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL > > > > No it doesn't. CVSup will delete the files it doesn't know about, so > > you should *SAVE a copy* of your favorite kernel config file outside of > > the source tree and *copy* it into `/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf' after > > CVSup finishes updates the sources. > > But in my practice, CVSup did nothing with my own kernel config file. > In my memory, cvs did nothing with the files not in the source tree. Generally speaking, CVSup will delete files it doesn't know about. However, all of the src/sys/<arch>/conf directories have .cvsignore files in them which prevents this behavior. JN
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