Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 22:59:15 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: Another compile error Message-ID: <XFMail.981103225915.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199811021742.JAA07742@austin.polstra.com>
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On 02-Nov-98 John Polstra wrote: >> Shall I write a newbie's point of view on cvsup then to contribute >> to clearing things not that obvious? > > If you could distill the problems you encountered down to a few > questions and answers for the CVSup FAQ, I'd find that very useful. OK, what I can tell is this: The technical background/FAQ is very good, although what's missing IMHO is the lack of slightly advanced information. It's either WAAAAY technical or too newbie. I mean, afaik the questions I have asked weren't that newbie-like. (at least I hope not =) Q. What does the average person want to cvsup? A. The ports, docs and sources. Q. What would be the best place for cvsup files? A. /usr/src Q. What would the average person use for cvsup mode? A. checkout mode, to avoid all those cryptic ,v and Attic files ( ;) ) Q. To monitor the compilation/build process what would I use? A. simply use commands like 2>&1, tee, and the likes. Q. What exactly does 'make world' do? A. executes make buildworld and make installworld Q. OK, so what does make buildworld do? A. ? Q. And how about make installworld? A. ? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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