Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:37:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>, Alex Wilkinson <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping track with latest kernel ? CVSweb ? Message-ID: <3C7DDE33.9D1E7D14@mindspring.com> References: <20020228104139.P43806-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20020228114120.Q66186-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> <20020228114208.Q90450@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 28 February 2002 at 11:42:17 +1100, Andrew wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: > >> ie a way to know that the kernel has been updated so I can compile the > >> new one. > > > > cvsup and watch the output is probably easiest. > > Note that it's not possible to build a new kernel every time something > changes. There are dozens of updates every day. And at 8 minutes a kernel, for 5 dozen updates, that's almost 8 hours. And days are much, much longer than 8 hours. 8^p 8-) 8-) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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