Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 21:54:11 -0400 From: Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw@unete.cl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: working on -CURRENT from -STABLE? Message-ID: <200705262154.11782.dmw@unete.cl> In-Reply-To: <4658DDEA.4090204@u.washington.edu> References: <200705262114.20350.dmw@unete.cl> <4658DDEA.4090204@u.washington.edu>
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On Saturday 26 May 2007 21:24:58 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How can I install -CURRENT from -STABLE and work on > > -CURRENT code from -STABLE? > > > > Regards, > > Simply put that's not possible to set it up and work on > -CURRENT code, if you need to test CURRENT, because the > userland and kernel get installed in the same spots. > > It's much wiser to just install CURRENT and STABLE on > separate partitions / disks and work from there, if you don't > have access to virtual machines. Thanks, now... what can I use as virtual machine?. I mean, I need something with write access to the virtual machine filesystem, to work on the -CURRENT code from -STABLE, I think that I will be losing time compiling editors (emacs) and user environments two times (Xorg, KDE, etc.). > > -Garrett > [SNIP] Regards, -- .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | C/C++ Developer ..O | dmw [at] unete [dot] cl | FOSS Coding Adict OOO | BSD & Linux User | Standards Rocks!
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