From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 2 10:59:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B33106564A for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:59:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E228FC16 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:59:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-52-176.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.52.176]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524BF16C002D; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:59:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n22AxDT3038045; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:59:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:59:13 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Paige Thompson Message-Id: <20090302115913.f4a6ca3e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5061b39c0903020243j64dd9739ua26277d639834d27@mail.gmail.com> References: <5061b39c0903020021t311f69c8va16b425e13f80eeb@mail.gmail.com> <5061b39c0903020026u7ad4d422w8f572f35bb27f9d1@mail.gmail.com> <5061b39c0903020128i63f81812ne7699dedb4e4b8a5@mail.gmail.com> <20090302104337.d06b2b63.freebsd@edvax.de> <5061b39c0903020159m44d36a19m60a5079f43564193@mail.gmail.com> <20090302112443.5a08f565.freebsd@edvax.de> <5061b39c0903020243j64dd9739ua26277d639834d27@mail.gmail.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Kernel Compile issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:59:21 -0000 On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 02:43:01 -0800, Paige Thompson wrote: > You're right, my source tree is incomplete: > > # pwd > /usr/src/sys > # cd sys > sys: No such file or directory. > # I had a similar problem some years ago and couldn't find out what the reason was - the magic of this mailing list didn't open up to me that time yet. :-) > Thank you that helps a lot actually, it probably has something to do > with the source archives that I downloaded not being extracted > properly. This should be followed by an error message, either by ftp for an incomplete archive or by tar for a defective (and also incomplete) one. > I'm not a big fan of sysinstall, I prefer to work without > it. >From my experience, it's quite handy at install time. This usually is the time when I get the sources from the CD. After that, I don't use sysinstall anymore. FreeBSD brings excellent tools for the system administration as well as for installing software. When sources and ports tree are in place, I usually update them using cvsup (old fashioned, I know). Then everything should be up to date, ready for a "make" run in /usr/src. > You know the whole thing seems like its setup to try and force me > to use sysinstall. In any case, you should get proper results without using sysinstall. All the tools are there. > Even the ftp client gives me a lot of flack about > how I use mget (IE: mget ssys.* not being a valid way to just fetch > all of the files) so of course i'm left to go through and fetch each > of them individually :(( + On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 02:44:27 -0800, Paige Thompson wrote: > PS: it seems just straight up mget * works x.x > k! satisfactory enough... Don't forget to unset "prompt". :-) But as I said, I prefer getting the sources from the CD (is much faster). > and for whatever reason, Im not having any luck with ncftp which I'm > sure I could figure it out but I really don't think that I should have > to install an additional FTP client just so I can fetch the kernel > source ._. It's FreeBSD, you don't have to do such stupid things. :-) You even don't need to install cvsup in order to update the sources, FreeBSD brings its own csup today. > it kind of negates the whole minimalist aspect of having > multiple archive files in the first place. > > Am I right? I'm not sure why the archive is split into multiple volumes... maybe historical reasons? -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...