Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 11:53:33 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Sup's Freefall-centric tree conventions Message-ID: <199512101753.LAA23540@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <v02130509acf09c92823d@[199.183.109.242]> from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Dec 10, 95 08:49:41 am
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> I feel that the group is making a big mistake by using /usr/src as the
> location of the -current tree available for sup'ping.
>
> This assumes that the system is interested in only the absolute latest
> -current version of the source. I think that this is in error. /usr/src
> should be reserved for the system's own sources. They might be 2.1-RELEASE,
> for example.
>
> Similarly, assuming that -stable is on /a/src is equally freefall-centric.
>
> I advocate that we designate another tree location for the various source trees.
> For example, ~FreeBSD/current, ~FreeBSD/stable, ~FreeBSD/cvs, etc.
> The individual system is then free to make these entries links to whatever
> location is appropriate for their configuration.
I did precisely this, I used "/sup/current" "/sup/stable", etc. as the base
for my sup operation here, and these are actually symlinks into my /ftp
tree, so everything magically works.
We should maybe consider discussing the best way to do this, to help
minimize confusion ("What? Your sup collections are in /xyz?") and the
number of changes one needs to make to a supfile to make it do the right
thing.
I, for one, would prefer to see my convention of "/sup/current" etc. mainly
because I would hesitate to make a user name for freebsd, and in caps yet.
:-)
... Joe
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