Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:36:36 +0000 (WET) From: freebsd@bug.fe.up.pt To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Staying -STABLE with make world Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980325222343.6347B-100000@slug.EUnet.pt>
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As the subject says I am trying to track -STABLE but I've some questions about the most efective method to do it. So where are my questions: I've installed the 2.2.2 sources from CD on a spare partition named /stable then I CVSup'ed the RELENG_2_2 branch and it merged with the 2.2.2 sources resulting in the 2.2.6-STABLE sources. I've also made a symlink from /usr/src to /stable/src. 1. Should I update the sources every night and in the morning check the logs and remake the changed programs? Or, should I upgrade the sources once in a while and do a full make world? 2. If I customize any file in the tree that will be updated by CVSup what will happen if that file must be changed by the cvsup program? Can it merge the new version with the one I've changed? If not what will happen? Or do I need to keep an unmodified version of -STABLE and copy all the tree to change my files and compile from this new modified tree? (I need to add support for my parallel zip drive) If anyone has any ideas about this method or wants to tell me how you do it please fell free (and I'll be grateful) to email me privately and I'll make a digest of the answers and will post it to this list. The machine I am talking about is a shell server so if anyone from best.com is listening (Matt Dillon?) I'd like to know how they do it. Thanks, Jorge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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