Re: where to grab source tarball?

2009-04-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0400, John Almberg wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory > is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball > from a FreeBSD mirror". > [...] > But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or

Re: where to grab source tarball?

2009-04-15 Thread John Almberg
On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:10 PM, John Almberg wrote: I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror". Never mind. I figured out how to do this using csup, which will help with lat

where to grab source tarball?

2009-04-15 Thread John Almberg
I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror". I found a list of mirrors here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- ftp.html But it isn't clear