From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 27 23:40: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8A437B402; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:40:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0203.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.203] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16gLAI-0004sS-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:39:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7DDE33.9D1E7D14@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:37:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Andrew , Alex Wilkinson , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping track with latest kernel ? CVSweb ? References: <20020228104139.P43806-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20020228114120.Q66186-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> <20020228114208.Q90450@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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