Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:29:25 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maybe a stupid question but.... Message-ID: <404DFEF5.5040803@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <404DFC65.4070209@gldis.ca> References: <1B74E3AB9C498E479D071D5C59C32FE5BA2883@server01.klocwork.com> <404DFC65.4070209@gldis.ca>
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Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > Alina Groulx wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in >> a form that I recognize. I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code >> but am not seeing it anywhere. Can someone help me or perhaps let me >> know how I can download off the cvs site? >> >> Alina Groulx > > > All of the ftp mirrors have it in the src directory of the release or > snapshot directory. This directory contains a shell script "install.sh". > Set the DESTDIR environment variable and run the shell script. The > source, as it existed for that snapshot or release, will be installed > in the directory specified by DESTDIR. If you want the source code for > your current system, have cvsup installed and want to install the > source code into /usr/src you can simply: > > cvsup -h cvsup15.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard* > FreeBSD code is also available via anonymous cvs; see the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook), Appendix A, section 3. The module you'd want (I guess) is "src-all" HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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