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[79.66.147.78]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h184sm25143956wmh.23.2021.01.02.10.28.14 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 02 Jan 2021 10:28:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: etcupdate, svnlite, documentation etc. following the transition of source to Git To: FreeBSD CURRENT References: <87lfdctq83.wl-herbert@gojira.at> From: Graham Perrin Message-ID: <84d51d51-4802-f26e-2662-b95102075751@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 18:28:14 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4D7Vkn2xltz4l6j X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.88 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.88)[-0.885]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[79.66.147.78:received]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::436:from]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2a00:1450::/32, country:US]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::436:from:127.0.2.255]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::436:from]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.34 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:28:18 -0000 On 02/01/2021 16:48, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 1:31 AM Graham Perrin > wrote: > > On 01/01/2021 19:24, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > > > On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:01:16 +0100, Graham Perrin wrote: > >> At what should have been the end of my first upgrade since the > >> transition to git: > >> > >> cd /usr/src/freebsd-current && make installworld && etcupdate > >> > >> 𠄴– concluded with a successful installworld, then a few lines > about > >> scanning and skipping certificates, then: > >> > >>> Failed to build new tree. > >> I see the manual page for etcupdate(8) but I'm not sure how to > proceed. > > -s source          Specify an alternate source tree to use when > building > >                     or extracting a “current” tree. The default > source > >                     tree is /usr/src. > > > With the transition to Git > > ========================== > > If it's true that /usr/src is _no longer_ a predictable path to the > source files, then is it still appropriate for users' fortunes to > include this FreeBSD tip? > > > That's 100% not true. The 'src' 'doc' and future 'ports' repos were > named that way so you could check them out directly into /usr to get > the traditional paths. The git team made no pronouncement about > deprecating this, and went to some minor trouble to ensure it would > still be easy. > > I personally haven't used /usr/src in 20 years, but that's just a > character defect on my part. > > Warner Thanks for the clarifications. I'll edit my comments in Reddit.