Subject: Re: Building your own kernel
To: None <bsdnat@zumdick.rhein-main.de>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 10/16/1995 10:48:00
> >> Wouldn't it be better for me to get the whole Repository (from somewhere)
> >> and then later on diffs thereof, then this large tar file ?
> >The whole repository seems a bit over done when you only want to build a 
> >new kernel ;-) When you want all sources, be sure you have about 180Mb
> >disk space. This excludes the space needed to store the objects.
> Well OK not the _whole_ repository but only those needed for the
> kernel. CVS has a facility to generate patch files, from one version
> to another. So one might get the patch file for all the modules directory
> that one wants, apply them and commit the result to update the kernel.
Diffs were not supplied agains 1.0, I think because the diffs were bigger
than the tar-files. Rember that 1.0 dates from Okt. 1994. I didn't even start
the atari port at that time....

> 
> I am just a bit worried that when release 1.1 strikes I have to 
> refetch the whole bit again...
That's what sup is for... if you are able to use it. 

> 
> What is the sup-commando BTW ?
Checkout ..../NetBSD/NetBSD-current/othersrc/sup

Leo.