From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 7 14:17:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26482 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26119; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA10845; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 07:21:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808072121.HAA10845@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC In-Reply-To: <199808071441.KAA19864@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Aug 7, 98 10:41:45 am" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 07:21:44 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, dfr@nlsystems.com, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Better still, change config to not require write access to the source > > tree, defaulting it's path to /sys and allowing that to be changed > > by a switch. Then you could do: > > You mean like: > > # cd /sys > # rmdir compile > # mkdir /usr/obj/sys/compile > # ln -s !$ . No. That still means making a modification to the source tree. I'd prefer the source tree to stay read-only. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137