From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 6 15:35:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA24087 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:35:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24048 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA06668 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:35:07 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA26812 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:35:07 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA02669 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:29:18 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602062329.AAA02669@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: On keeping a src tree To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:29:18 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602061818.LAA02651@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 6, 96 11:18:30 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I suggest that you should never store the source code obtained from any > > FreeBSD source in /usr/src. > How do you handle "config", since it is still (improperly, IMO) not > built as part of the kernel build tree and wants to be installed? Me, for example, i generally build a kernel from ~bin/sys, and have a recent config(8) inside ~bin/config. So instead of saying ``config FOO'', all i have to do is ``~/config/config FOO''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)