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Old 6th September 2008
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I'm installing Gnome on one of my laptops running FreeBSD 7. After some time it stops with an error Userland sources required in /usr/src.

there are 2 ways of doing it.
1 through csup
2. sysinstall

1. Do I need to modify /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile to fetch some perticular port

2. If I use sysinstall I didn't saw userland sources any where under configuration => Distribution => src. Then which sources i should select?
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what do you have in /usr/src directory?
when i was installing gnome last time, i had only kernel sources and had no problems....
anyway, if you going to install any/all sources, i would use sysinstall and then modified cvsup to update them (if you want to)

This is my supfile, i was using to update my sources just 3 days ago
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*default host=cvsup3.lv.freebsd.org
*default tag=RELENG_7_0
*default prefix=/usr
*default base=/var/db
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
src-all
bold lines are the ones you might want to edit

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html

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and why i don't want to just fetch sources with csup????
A: it's dam slow
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Note that you will need the same sources that your kernel and world are built from. Therefore, you want to add the sources from the install CD. Using csup will get you the latest sources. This means that you would need to update your system as well - Not a big problem - cd /usr/src; make buildworld buildkernel installkernel installworld; reboot should take care of it, although such a shorthand update can cause problems at times.
Getting the sources from your cd: well using sysinstall is probably the easiest. Run sysinstall, then choose a post-install configuration, find the way to add packages, then install the system and kernel sources.
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Note that you will need the same sources that your kernel and world are built from. Therefore, you want to add the sources from the install CD. Using csup will get you the latest sources. This means that you would need to update your system as well - Not a big problem - cd /usr/src; make buildworld buildkernel installkernel installworld; reboot should take care of it, although such a shorthand update can cause problems at times.
Getting the sources from your cd: well using sysinstall is probably the easiest. Run sysinstall, then choose a post-install configuration, find the way to add packages, then install the system and kernel sources.
Or you can use
*default tag=RELENG_7
and you will get same sources with csup as on installcd
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Or you can use
*default tag=RELENG_7
and you will get same sources with csup as on installcd
RELENG_7 will get you STABLE.
RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE will get you the same source as on the install cd.
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Thanks to you all, now the installation of gnome is done and I've custom compiled my kernel for sound support, now I wont be needing the source files for some time and would like to remove them as they are taking quiet some space on my 40 Gig HD .

So can I recursively delete entire contents of my /usr/src directory or should take care for some important configuration or makefiles. I've copied my custom kernel configuration to /root/ directory.
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copy your kernel configuration.... rest is not important as far as i know
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Thanks to you all, now the installation of gnome is done and I've custom compiled my kernel for sound support, now I wont be needing the source files for some time and would like to remove them as they are taking quiet some space on my 40 Gig HD .
~0.5 GB is a lot? That's less than an 80th (or 0.125%) of your drive space.

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So can I recursively delete entire contents of my /usr/src directory or should take care for some important configuration or makefiles. I've copied my custom kernel configuration to /root/ directory.
Sure, but then you'll have to re-download them anytime you want to edit the kernel config, or update the system, or update GNOME, and so on. What's more important to you: half a gig of drive space, or X minutes of time redoing things everytime?
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