From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 20 00:17:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA16481 for current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:17:58 -0800 Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA16465 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:17:50 -0800 Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.1/8.7.1) id DAA07784; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 03:16:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 03:16:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question (or complaint) about sup In-Reply-To: <199511200456.UAA08098@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > I know, kinda vague. For example, /usr/src/lib/libncurses > >is 1.8.6...from 1994. I'm on the ncurses mailing list, and the > >ncurses I have on the system right now is 1.9.8 (1.9.7a + a bunch of > >patches). I dont' want to do a 'make world' and have my ncurses > >replaced... > > > I would suggest creating an exclusion list for tha areas of the tree > you don't want updated. Read the SUP man page for details. > Got it...but it only solves half the problem...the "make world" still doesn't work, since as soon as it tries to compile libncurses, it will fail, since it doesn't exist... And...yes, I can modify the Makefile, but as soon as I re'sup, there is a good change that will get replaced... One of the things I noticed was that the "root makefile", in /usr/src, does checking of subdirectories as to what has to be compiled and what doesn't... ...I don't mind trying to hit all the appropriate Makefiles, but if I do, is there somewhere I can submit them so that it becomes part of the supserver, so that I don't have to modify each time...and I would think that there are others that have similar requirements to ... omit stuff out of the source tree for various reasons. Marc G. Fournier | Knowledge, Information and Communications, Inc (ki.net) scrappy@hub.org | soon to be: | scrappy@ki.net | For more information, send me email.