From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 09:19:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10434 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA10427 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:19:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA25943; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:18:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701291718.JAA25943@austin.polstra.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: 2.2 sources ? Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: References: <2.2.32.19970128143327.00b74300@mail.nacamar.de> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: beckmann@mail.nacamar.de (Michael Beckmann), hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:18:39 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I wonder where one can get the current FreeBSD 2.2 source tree. It seems > > that the -current tree is FreeBSD 3.0 now. > > > > The reason why I ask is that I want to build a kernel from newer sources > > than 2.2-BETA. > > I'm not familiar with cvsup's feature to get a particular CVS branch, > but i think you should be able to fetch a tree from the RELENG_2_2 tag > (that's the name of the beast). Yes, that will work. There's a tutorial on how to do it in the FreeBSD handbook, section 17.2, at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html See especially section 17.2.3. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth