On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:13:54PM +0000, Sung N. Cho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> NetBSD source seems to be awfully too big!  When I cvs checkout -P src,
> it seem to download everything including those not really specific to my
> machine, i386.  Source seems to be around 600 Meg if I'm correct.  Is
> there anyway I can just download the i386 specific and necessary files
> to build netbsd system for i386 successfully?  Or do I just need to
> download everything just to build i386 netbsd system?  Thank you.

With cvs it's not easy. sup allows you to select specific arch bits
*for kernel sources only*.
Most of the space used comes from userland, in which there is really
few arch-specific bits.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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