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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:41:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Copying [via tar] /usr/src to other pc -- won't build world.
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You may also want to add the p flag to tar to preserve permissions.
However, without seeing the actual error, I'm not sure if this will help:

tar cvzpf ...

Joe Clarke

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Peter wrote:

> Hello,
> 	This weekend I tried to copy over /usr/src from a pc
> that just finished doing cvsup -- the buildworld/kernel went fine.
>
> I did the following:
> cd /usr/src
> rm -rf *
>
> on the good pc:
> cd /usr/src
> tar zcvf usr.src.tar.z *
>
> then I ftp'ed that file over to the other pc and extracted it in
> /usr/src -- it would not build -- would error out after an hour or so.
> [fresh install of 4.0-R, the good pc is 4.3-S]
>
> So, what did I miss that it would not build ?
> Ever since, I have just fixed that pc to do cvsup, but how can I cvsup one pc,
> and then just ftp the files over.
>
>
>
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