Bug 165410
| Summary: | [handbook] installer documentation is not up to date | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Fernando Apesteguía <fernape> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Benedict Reuschling <bcr> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->bcr Grab this one. Author: bcr Date: Mon Jun 11 14:59:39 2012 New Revision: 39025 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39025 Log: The description about installing the system sources are no longer accurate in newer FreeBSD versions, since sysinstall is not there anymore. Therefore, provide a more general way that fits both cases by refering to the section in the handbook about synching the system sources. PR: docs/165410 Submitted by: Fernando (fernando dot apesteguia at gmail dot com) Patch by: crees (slightly modified by me) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml Mon Jun 11 08:17:03 2012 (r39024) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml Mon Jun 11 14:59:39 2012 (r39025) @@ -300,13 +300,9 @@ following line in &man.loader.conf.5;: <para>If the directory <filename>/usr/src/</filename> does not exist on your system (or if it is empty), then the sources have not been installed. The easiest way to install the full source - tree is to run <command>sysinstall</command> as - <username>root</username>, and then choosing - <guimenuitem>Configure</guimenuitem>, then - <guimenuitem>Distributions</guimenuitem>, then - <guimenuitem>src</guimenuitem>, and finally - <guimenuitem>All</guimenuitem>. If it does not exist, you should - also create a symlink to <filename>/usr/src/sys/</filename>:</para> + is to use &man.csup.1; as described in <xref + linkend="synching">. You should also create a symlink to + <filename class="directory">/usr/src/sys/</filename>:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ln -s /usr/src/sys /sys</userinput></screen> </note> _______________________________________________ svn-doc-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-doc-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-doc-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" State Changed From-To: open->closed An update was committed to the doc tree, based on the patch that crees came up with. Thanks to both the submitter and crees. PR closed! |
In the handbook[1] the following paragraph can be read: Note: If the directory /usr/src/ does not exist on your system (or if it is empty), then the sources have not been installed. The easiest way to install the full source tree is to run sysinstall as root, and then choosing Configure, then Distributions, then src, and finally All. If it does not exist, you should also create a symlink to /usr/src/sys/: # ln -s /usr/src/sys /sys However sysinstall can not be used for this task since 9.0. According to the ftp[2], the distributions sysinstall is trying to fetch don't exist anymore. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html [2] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/ Fix: Update the handbook stating that for 9.0-RELEASE the source can be fetched either from the ftp[1] or using csup. English is not my first language so a patch to the doc is not provided. [1] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/ How-To-Repeat: Follow instructions to install kernel sources at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html sysinstall will show an error indicating it can not fetch any of the selected distributions