Re: Cvsup kernel source only?

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andre LeClaire wrote:
> Hello, everyone! With the idea of creating a custom router, I've 
> installed DragonFly on an older laptop with limited resources (1GB flash 
> drive), and wonder if it's possible to build a custom kernel by 
> cvsup-ing the kernel source only? This was possible with FreeBSD 4*, but 
> all the info I've found describes getting the entire source tree for 
> Dragonfly, which wouldn't fit in the space available.

Replace 'dragonfly-cvs-src' with 'dragonfly-src-sys' in the supfile 
you're using. Seems to work (as I just learned recently). Although 
you'll also need the toplevel Makefiles in src/.

Another option is to take the kernel src tarball which is on the LiveCD, 
/usr/src-sys.tar.bz2.

Sascha

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