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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:29:09 +0200
From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr>
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To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: softupdates in latest build?
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Hello,

the softupdates have been moved from /usr/src/contrib/sys to
/usr/src/sys/contrib

	TfH

Brad Knowles wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
>         I built a machine on Friday w/ FreeBSD-STABLE.  Of course, this
> was just before certain fixes were committed that would allow it to
> actually successfully build a kernel, so I went back today and
> cvsup'ed to the latest version.
> 
>         However, it would appear that /usr/src/contrib/sys was not
> included in this update, so any kernel that you might want to build
> with softupdates enabled would not be possible.
> 
>         I got a copy of the necessary files from another machine I built
> a little while back (and which did not need to be cvsup'ed in order
> to be able to build a kernel), so I think I'll be able to get this to
> work.
> 
>         However, the bigger question is why is this necessary?  Did I
> miss something fundamental with regards to cvsup that is explained
> somewhere on <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html> or
> <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP>, or perhaps
> elsewhere in the manual?
> 
>         Thanks!
> 
> --
>    These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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