Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:30:22 +0000 From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Artem Belevich <fbsdlist@src.cx> Subject: Re: Getting /usr/src/ from SVN directly? Message-ID: <20110326183022.GB31354@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinoEJFdugT86v-vVjkh_gcVN1OFxM4h-H0gXW_p@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik%2BKcxpO47JH8z-ezTJD3ZH-ozJSp1xfgRYpWNs@mail.gmail.com> <20110325233826.00000cab@unknown> <AA26C490-6CCD-4EF1-9874-28534982DDA2@gmail.com> <AANLkTikq_yoeh4DtOV5wShZ0YqA1goNEbkttP2i1EQbF@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTim5=V6sFV_a2xc2dTSOt_kDfGuYoA@mail.gmail.com> <20110326110012.GA73916@freebsd.org> <AANLkTinoEJFdugT86v-vVjkh_gcVN1OFxM4h-H0gXW_p@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat Mar 26 11, Nerius Landys wrote: > > one could also use the -F switch in connection with mergemaster(8). > > >From mergemaster manpage: > > "If the files differ only by VCS Id ($FreeBSD) install the new file." > > Yes that is exactly what I want, thanks. np. > > By the way, are there any other ways that are more preferred to get > /usr/src/ than doing what I've done, which is using > devel/subversion-freebsd to checkout head into /usr/src/? actually i think that's the prefered way. i don't think there are any huge speed advantages using rsync. some other projects recommend downloading and extracting a gzip'ed source snapshot and then run svn up. but i don't think the freebsd project produces such src snapshots. cheers. alex -- a13x
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