Maybe a stupid question but....
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
kdk at daleco.biz
Tue Mar 9 09:29:30 PST 2004
Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> Alina Groulx wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in
>> a form that I recognize. I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code
>> but am not seeing it anywhere. Can someone help me or perhaps let me
>> know how I can download off the cvs site?
>>
>> Alina Groulx
>
>
> All of the ftp mirrors have it in the src directory of the release or
> snapshot directory. This directory contains a shell script "install.sh".
> Set the DESTDIR environment variable and run the shell script. The
> source, as it existed for that snapshot or release, will be installed
> in the directory specified by DESTDIR. If you want the source code for
> your current system, have cvsup installed and want to install the
> source code into /usr/src you can simply:
>
> cvsup -h cvsup15.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard*
>
FreeBSD code is also available via anonymous cvs;
see the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook),
Appendix A, section 3. The module you'd want (I
guess) is "src-all"
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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