Move old FAQ to FreeBSD-1.1.FAQ
Started new FAQ
Move old Systems to Systems-1.1.FAQ
Started new Systems
moved slip-dialup to Slip.FAQ (Needs to be reworked for 2.0)
More work to come...
as the previous one, and better integrated with the build scheme.
Define OLDTIMEZONES to get backward-compatibility links added.
Define LEAPSECONDS if you want leap-second support.
to a reasonable compromise:
MASTER_SITES now contains a space seperated list of sites for which each
DISTFILE may be retrieved. This should be a directory spec, which will be
concatenated with each file in DISTFILES. HOME_LOCATION is *gone* now
and isn't used for anything, so you can delete it from your Makefiles.
If you want to force a fetch from a given location, simply do something like:
MASTER_SITES= ftp://fnord.foo.bar/pub/dist
DISTFILES= a.tar.gz b.tar.gz
Your entry in MASTER_SITES will be tried first to fetch a.tar.gz and
b.tar.gz, followed by any master sites we have set up (right now, only
freebsd.cdrom.com).
directories or links before we install the new things, but now we don't
delete /usr/share/examples itself, so other examples installed from
other places in the tree will not be touched.
Submitted by: jkh gclarkii paul satoshi freebsd-hackers
These are the FAQ files, reorganized a bit and updated marginally for 2.0.
There is *still more work to be done* in updating, so if some of your FAQ text
is below, please check it over! We've also got a lot of FAQ entries still
to write (examples: "how do I upgrade?" "what's new in 2.0?" "how do I
install on a notebook/second drive/from DOS/etc etc etc?"
1. DISTFILE is gone and replaced by DISTFILES, which can contain one or
more file specifications.
2. MASTER_SITE created, which points to the distfiles directory on
freebsd.cdrom.com (which I'll set up in a moment).
3. HOME_LOCATION is now simply a hint, and is never directly used except
to inform the user when ncftp unable to transfer a file from
MASTER_SITE.
4. ncftp is now assumed to live somewhere in the path, in preparation for
Andrew bringing it in on a more permanant basis.
5. XMKMF defined - it was not before.
Thanks to Andrew (ache) for many helpful suggestions.
date: 1993/11/15 07:15:16; author: rgrimes; state: Exp; lines: +1 -0
From Andrew Moore
Make /usr/share/dict/words a symbolic link to web2
[This is now NECESSARY for games/boggle as it uses /usr/share/dict/words
as an input file]
Reviewed by: rgrimes
Submitted by: From 1.x, alm
revision 1.6
date: 1993/10/19 19:57:35; author: rgrimes; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1
Pull in ../Makefile.inc so that the whatis database ends up in the correct
place. Rich Murphy has a better fix for this, but I lost it!
multiple targets when dealing with creating a set of distribution files
from scratch. Another problem is *verifying* that a given file fetched
from its HOME_LOCATION is the one we wanted (what if the stupid ftp site
maintainer updated it in place?). Rich Morin pointed this out and suggested
some solutions. I need to think about it some more (suggestions?).
For now, we have a seperate `fetch' and `extract' target.
Submitted by: jkh
