how to start building?

[David Leimbach]

On Nov 26, 2003, at 1:03 AM, Matthew Dillon wrote:

:Awwwww crap!
:
:I downloaded the wrong CVSup file.  I got the one that does just sys
:and not any of the
:other source stuff.
:
:I thought for a while there I was just taking crazy pills :)
:
:Thanks for your help and patience everyone.
:
:Dave
    Ach.  Is there some default we have wrong or confusion that we can
    clear up by adding a comment in the cvsup file?
Well its my fault for not reading more closely on the download section 
more closely.

There is a good chance people might just "trust you" and not read the 
cvsup file
before running it  [from my own experience]

I would re-write the text of the Download page to read:

"The preferred method for obtaining the DragonFly codebase is to get 
CVS repository via
cvsup.  The file <link>dragonfly-cvs-supfile</link> contains the CVSup 
configuration needed
to retrieve the CVS and will download the CVS to /home/dcvs.

For example:
	mkdir /home/dcvs
	cvsup -g -L 2 dragonfly-cvs-supfile
If you don't plan to build the dragonfly source or just want the sys 
hierarchy you can use this
supfile: <link> dragonfly-cvs-sys-supfile</link>."

Alternatively I would distribute only one supfile.  As DragonFly, for 
all its coolness, is not
quite ready for the uninitiated BSD users, I don't think it would be a 
problem to edit the
supfile manually or tell the user how to change the one line or two 
that will make us get
all of src vs just sys.

I am cool now [besides mergemaster crapping out which I saw some 
traffic about earlier]
but perhaps someone else will hit the same problem.  Then again... most 
people don't try to do
3 things at once all the time like I do and will probably read more 
carefully than I.

Dave
						-Matt