Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:37:37 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting the kernel source - just with #rm? Message-ID: <20091004133737.GA63827@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20091004131504.GB1406@sandcat> References: <20091004131504.GB1406@sandcat>
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On Sun 2009-10-04 15:15:05 UTC+0200, herbert langhans (herbert.raimund@gmx.net) wrote:
> I just compiled a nice, slim kernel on my laptop, but I dont want to
> carry all the kernel sources around there.
>
> Is it ok just to #rm the content of the /usr/src directory? And will I
> get it completely back from sysinstall or the FreeBSD-servers? Or is
> there a more elegant solution on FreeBSD?
This should be fine.
Since you've built a custom kernel you may want to keep a copy of
your kernel build config ("LINT") file, eg. /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/HOSTNAME.
Note that you can't use freebsd-update to patch a custom (non-GENERIC)
kernel.
You can restore the kernel source code by extracting the ssys.??
binaries (normally found in the /src/ directory, eg.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/src/ )
using install.sh (found in the same directory). Probably also with
sysinstall, but I don't recall the steps to do that.
Regards
Andrew
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