Re: etcupdate, svnlite, documentation etc. following the transition of source to Git

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 18:28:14 +0000
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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