[nycbug-talk] a clarification about the csup/CVS announcement

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:06:37PM -0500, Brett Wynkoop wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:23:30 -0800
> Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> 
> > i'm a little confused as to how can't have enough space to install
> > the svn package but still have enough space to manually build
> > kernel+world.
> > 
> > i've seen a lot of people bring this argument up on various freebsd 
> > threads and i'm just not getting it...
> > 
> > having said that - if someone where able to port csup over to svn i 
> > would be a very happy person, but i really don't expect that to
> > happen.
> > 
> > -pete
> > 
> 
> Here we go:
> 
> wynkoop at beaglebone:~ % uname -a
> FreeBSD beaglebone 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #10: Sat Jan  5
> 07:03:04 EST 2013
> root at beaglebone:/sys/arm/compile/BEAGLEBONE-DEBUG  arm
> wynkoop at beaglebone:~ % 
> 
> wynkoop at beaglebone:~ % df -h
> Filesystem        Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/mmcsd0s2a    7.2G    3.4G    3.3G    51%    /
> devfs             1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
> wynkoop at beaglebone:~ % 
> 
> That is the state just after make buildworld and before make make
> buildkernel.  Many of the guys working on ARM stuff have 4Gb disks.  I
> went large with 8Gb.
> 

Technically, you should 'buildworld' before 'buildkernel' so the kernel
toolchain exists.  Otherwise, kernel build can fail for strange reasons.

That is, of course, unless you have built kernel toolchain prior, which
space issues aside, is a waste of time IMHO.

Glen

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