Subject: Re: HAL (was build.sh fails)
To: David S. <davids@idiom.com>
From: Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@unna.ping.de>
List: current-users
Date: 03/01/2004 00:50:33
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In message <20040229214941.GF12775@doctorno.local>you write:
> 
> > > So why is it enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel configuration,
> > > guaranteeing broken builds?
> > 
> > It only guarantees broken builds if you retrieve your sources in a
> > broken way.
> 
> OK, if 'sup' is broken, than why is it an "officially" supported
> method of retrieving -current sources?
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/README.sup

I mentioned this problem some time ago, asking also if I should file a PR 
against this, but nobody even bothered to answer.

Gruesse
       Oskar



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In message <20040229214941.GF12775@doctorno.local>you write:
> 
> > > So why is it enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel configuration,
> > > guaranteeing broken builds?
> > 
> > It only guarantees broken builds if you retrieve your sources in a
> > broken way.
> 
> OK, if 'sup' is broken, than why is it an "officially" supported
> method of retrieving -current sources?
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/README.sup

I mentioned this problem some time ago, asking also if I should file a PR 
against this, but nobody even bothered to answer.

Gruesse
       Oskar


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