From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 21:51:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA00331 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA00326 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:51:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA08610 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:51:20 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:51:20 -0600 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: On keeping a src tree Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >/usr/src should be private to the machine ... FOLKS. This is EXCELLENT ADVISE. I suggest that you should never store the source code obtained from any FreeBSD source in /usr/src. Move it somewhere else! I would go so far as to suggest that you make it ReadOnly with respect to the account that you use to modify things. Then "clone" it into /usr/src using the lndir command. You can then use this tree just as you would have originally. (Except that you have to copy a source before you alter it) That way you will not polute the reference tree with your own stuff. It doesn't really take much additional space and I guarantee that it will make life much easier. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net