From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 14:07:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA28309 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eel.dataplex.net (eel.dataplex.net [208.2.87.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA28296 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (cod [208.2.87.4]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA25009; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:06:58 -0500 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:07:05 -0500 To: Dave Babler From: rkw@shark.dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: is it live, or... Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Hmmm... you sort of lost me there. (X-files?) lndir is in the X11R6 tree. > I figured I could just nuke >the current source tree and link the source tree on the CD to the base, >but how in the world would CTM work in this case? Or SUP? The tree built with lndir is a real set of directories on the HD with a link to the individual files on the CD. This is opposed to one line to the top of a tree on the CD. Individual files can be replaced by removing the old version and copying a new one in its place. > The goal is to free >up some HD space, but I don't see how using the CD in this context can >work, unless I just stay with the CD release only. 1) Identify all files that have changed. 2) Remove any of them that are links to the CD and replace them with a real file on the disk. 3) Space is still saved for those files which remain unchanged. >PS: sorry for posting the original questiion twice, but I got an odd >notice (from attmail.com) claiming attmail is messed up. Just ignore them