From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 20:27:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA26771 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:27:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26766 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:27:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA08152; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:27:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:27:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sup is broken? In-Reply-To: <1120.823579456@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Huh? You should not point your sup collections at an active > directory. We made this mistake on freefall for a long time, > regretted it all the way, and *finally* switched over to having our > checked-out current and stable trees pristine. You definitely don't > want either of them pointing at the same place your /usr/src points! > /usr/src should be private to the machine hosting the sup server. > Okay, let me reword the question, since you kinda answer it... If I sup to /usr/sup, how do I get those sources to /usr/src so that I can compile? I've tried a straight "sup", but it tells me that its the same machine. ... oh, found the answer i was looking for, I think. I want to use 'sup -l' for this? Just to confirm that this is in fact how its to be done? > > Hmmm, this might answer my one question...if I sup CVS instead > > of -current/-ports, I'll get what, exactly? -current/-stable/-ports/?? > > Right. > Great...now where did I put all that extra disk space :( Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc