From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 12 18:21:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28705 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:21:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ohio.river.org (river.org [209.24.233.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28699 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhawk@ohio.river.org) Received: (from dhawk@localhost) by ohio.river.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id SAA07724; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:20:13 -0800 (PST) From: David Hawkins Message-Id: <199802130220.SAA07724@ohio.river.org> Subject: Re: problem building release In-Reply-To: <199802130104.RAA09830@moana.kerner.com> from Michael Kiernan at "Feb 12, 98 05:04:36 pm" To: mkiernan@kerner.com (Michael Kiernan) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:20:13 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Is there a way to build releases that includes info files while also > having your source tree located someplace other than /usr/src? Symbolic link. My source is in /var/newsrc so # cd /usr # mv src src.keep # ln -s /var/newsrc src Works fine. I've got a large /var filesystem. Anyway, symbolic links let you rearrange everything on a case by case basis. later, david -- David Hawkins -- dhawk@river.org http://www.river.org/~dhawk I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get *angry* when they lose a cow. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message