From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 22:29:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A299437B400 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:29:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.org (socks1.yahoo.com [216.145.50.200]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410A08B5D6; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:29:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D17FFAA.C5BFF49E@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:29:14 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, riccardo@torrini.org Subject: Re: custom kernel References: <200206241205.g5OC5GJF002571@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Wolfskill wrote: > > >Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:33:23 +0200 (CEST) > >From: Riccardo Torrini > > >To avoid unwanted removal can we locate that file under any other > >place and point it (also by KERNCONF or some new black magic) with > >full path? Is this possible (or already done) ? > > Well, what I do is place symlinks in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, pointing to > the "real" kernel config file(s), which are in a different hierarchy, > and in the "local" part of my CVS repository (vs. the FreeBSD part). > > It may be a hack, but it's been a fairly effective one for some time > now. :-} That is also useful if you're prone to do 'rm -rm /usr/src' periodically :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message