From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 22:38:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E73F37B401; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5P4jsb24778; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:45:55 -0500 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 7BD931F05; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:38:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:38:08 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Doug Barton Cc: David Wolfskill , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, riccardo@torrini.org Subject: Re: custom kernel Message-ID: <20020625053808.GW81018@over-yonder.net> References: <200206241205.g5OC5GJF002571@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <3D17FFAA.C5BFF49E@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D17FFAA.C5BFF49E@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD 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 On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:29:14PM -0700 I heard the voice of Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > 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 > :) Indeed. I keep mine in /usr/local/kernel (I sometimes have to copy them over, such as when doing a kernel build over NFS on another box, but life isn't perfect), and I newfs /usr/src and re-co the src tree between builds (nice quick and easy way to cleanup, that). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message