From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 19: 0: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4339137B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (66.111.4.2.nyinternet.net [66.111.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BDDB43ECF for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:59:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB402773; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:59:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:59:28 -0500 X-Epoch: 1038884368 X-Sasl-enc: /eR9tS3CgBAPDYS7XJZV8w Received: from localhost (dialup-209.246.211.210.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [209.246.211.210]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E1C12D51; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:59:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:00:32 -0500 From: Jud To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: b1henning@hotmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: location for supfiles Message-Id: <20021202220032.425a8273.judmarc@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021202174203.01201970@mail.sage-one.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20021202174203.01201970@mail.sage-one.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:42:03 -0600 "Jack L. Stone" wrote: > At 05:18 PM 12.2.2002 -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > >Hello, > >I have been using cvsup for a while now. I typically put the > >ports-supfile and the other supfiles in /root. Is this a good place > >for it? where do most admins put these kind of files? any good ideas? > > > >thanks, > >brian > > > > Usually in "/usr/src" Purely for the sake of personal convenience, in my home directory, because when I cvsup I usually login with the intent of doing so. With the cvsup flags line in /etc/make.conf uncommented, it's a matter of login, su to root, then # cvsup [supfile] Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message