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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: dhs@cs.utexas.edu (Douglas H. Steves) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: can't load source package Date: 1 May 1996 12:48:25 -0500 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4m8859$as0@nada.cs.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nada.cs.utexas.edu I'm having trouble loading a source package from the 2.1 cds. I loaded the kernel source doing initial installation, and while trying to load the commands/libs/misc sources last night, installsw complained because there was already a /usr/src directory. It wanted to move it to /usr/src.2.0 and then recreate /usr/src. This would be fine, except that I don't have enough space in /usr for all the sources, so I created a symlink from /usr/src to a directory in a file system that's big enough, but even with an empty directory, it still complains about /usr/src already existing. Is there any way to tell installsw to install in a different location? Or to stop being so picayune about installing over the existing stuff (which is 2.1 anyway)? (Geez, this is something even windows gets right.) Alternatively, how do I bypass installsw and just copy the stuff over myself? Doug (who used to bitch because installp and updatep on AIX were shell scripts, but if installsw were a shell script, I could fix it ...)