where to grab source tarball?
I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. Absolute FreeBSD glibly says to grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror. I found a list of mirrors here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- ftp.html But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or where it is on the mirror. Basically, I want to get to the point where I can type: cd /usr/src make buildworld And build FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE I'd like to download the source to the server, rather than inserting a CD in the machine, since Im 2 hours away from the machine. Thanks: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where to grab source tarball?
On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:10 PM, John Almberg wrote: I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. Absolute FreeBSD glibly says to grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror. Never mind. I figured out how to do this using csup, which will help with later upgrades. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where to grab source tarball?
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0400, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. Absolute FreeBSD glibly says to grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror. [...] But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or where it is on the mirror. Choose a local mirror. Then, for example, go into the directory ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.1-RELEASE/src/ and see the source files. Download all of them and install them through install.sh. This will populate /usr/src with these sources. Basically, I want to get to the point where I can type: cd /usr/src make buildworld And build FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Once you have the sources installed properly (even without updating them to the lastest 7.1-RELEASE-p or 7.1-STABLE) this should be possible. I'd like to download the source to the server, rather than inserting a CD in the machine, since Im 2 hours away from the machine. Then the way mentioned above will be no problem. You can use the CLI ftp to automate it. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
