On 02/01/2021 16:48, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 1:31 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com > <mailto:grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 01/01/2021 19:24, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > > > On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:01:16 +0100, Graham Perrin wrote: > >> At what should have been the end of my first upgrade since the > >> transition to git: > >> > >> cd /usr/src/freebsd-current && make installworld && etcupdate > >> > >> 𠄴– concluded with a successful installworld, then a few lines > about > >> scanning and skipping certificates, then: > >> > >>> Failed to build new tree. > >> I see the manual page for etcupdate(8) but I'm not sure how to > proceed. > > -s source Specify an alternate source tree to use when > building > > or extracting a “current” tree. The default > source > > tree is /usr/src. > > > With the transition to Git > > ========================== > > If it's true that /usr/src is _no longer_ a predictable path to the > source files, then is it still appropriate for users' fortunes to > include this FreeBSD tip? > > > That's 100% not true. The 'src' 'doc' and future 'ports' repos were > named that way so you could check them out directly into /usr to get > the traditional paths. The git team made no pronouncement about > deprecating this, and went to some minor trouble to ensure it would > still be easy. > > I personally haven't used /usr/src in 20 years, but that's just a > character defect on my part. > > Warner Thanks for the clarifications. I'll edit my comments in Reddit.Received on Sat Jan 02 2021 - 17:28:17 UTC
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