Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:21:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: John Que <qwejohn@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Source Message-ID: <20050309102158.GA13644@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <BAY14-F311DC00B879F2C2E4BB5BDAF510@phx.gbl> References: <BAY14-F311DC00B879F2C2E4BB5BDAF510@phx.gbl>
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On 2005-03-09 11:37, John Que <qwejohn@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a totally newbie to FreeBSD. > > I want to download FreeBSD Kernel Source (I do not want to install the > OS itself, just look at the sources on a different (Linux) platform). > Is it possible ? Yes. > From where can I download it ? You can browse the source online at: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/sys/ You can download a snapshot of the source from one of the FTP mirrors. For example, if you download all the ssys.?? files from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE/src/ you can join the files and view their contents as a normal tarball: % cat ssys.?? | tar tvf - Alternatively, if you want to keep an up to date copy of the source, you may find it easier to use CVSup. There are Linux binaries of CVSup at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/binaries/ The process of obtaining the full source tree for FreeBSD would then be: - Download a binary of CVSup that works for you. - Copy a supfile from the FreeBSD samples. The source of these example supfiles can be found at: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/share/examples/cvsup/ - Edit your supfile, as necessary. - Run cvsup. This should download an up to date version of the source parts you configure your supfile with. Giorgos
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