On 02/01/2021 16:48, Warner Losh wrote:
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 1:31 AM Graham Perrin <grahamper...@gmail.com
<mailto:grahamper...@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.
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