Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:51:20 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: On keeping a src tree Message-ID: <v02140b06ad3c9a165a9c@[199.183.109.242]>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: >/usr/src should be private to the machine ... FOLKS. This is EXCELLENT ADVISE. I suggest that you should never store the source code obtained from any FreeBSD source in /usr/src. Move it somewhere else! I would go so far as to suggest that you make it ReadOnly with respect to the account that you use to modify things. Then "clone" it into /usr/src using the lndir command. You can then use this tree just as you would have originally. (Except that you have to copy a source before you alter it) That way you will not polute the reference tree with your own stuff. It doesn't really take much additional space and I guarantee that it will make life much easier. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net
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