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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:00:53 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>,
	Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>,
	"Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>,
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Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse
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On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 04:53:24PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > One snag with that.  Sometimes a remedy for fixing a build problem is
> > 
> >     # rm -rf /usr/src
> > 
> > and start again.  

<snip>

> Where do you stick your kernel config files?  I have mine in sys/i386/conf
> (for my i386 machine), 

I used to.  And then I fumbled once too often, and now they're in 
/root/kernels, with symlinks out of sys/i386/conf pointing back to them.
It's one less thing I have to worry about when upgrading my system.

N




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