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Subject: Re: Staying -STABLE with make world
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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 freebsd@bug.fe.up.pt wrote:

> 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

  I would never put sources or the build environment on a shell server.
Too much of a target.

  I would never rebuild anything, unless you have a need for it.

Tom


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