[9fans] Plan 9 source tarballs or cvsup?

[9fans] Plan 9 source tarballs or cvsup?

[Robert Watson]

Dear Plan9er's,

For the last couple of years, I've been running a kernel source code 
reference, fxr.watson.org, that contains the kernel sources of a number of 
operating systems (initially FreeBSD and Linux, now also many other BSD's, 
Open Solaris, Darwin, etc).  I did this because I wanted a place I could go to 
easily compare design approaches and implementations of kernels; however, it 
appears I now have a pretty large number of regular visitors.

I've had a number of requests to include Plan 9 source on the site, but have 
always stalled in adding it when reaching a somewhat critical question: how to 
get the source code?  I must be approaching this the wrong way!  I've perused 
the cm.bell-labs.com wiki a moderate amount, and discovered it's easy to 
download a compiled ISO, to peruse the source online, or to find directions 
for downloading the source using integrated Plan 9 tools.  I've been having 
trouble finding a way to automatically update a local copy of the source on a 
FreeBSD box (i.e., cvs cvsup, anonymous cvs, rsync, ..), which is what I need 
in order to put it up on the web site.  That or a simple source tarball I can 
update once in a while.

I'm probably being stupid, and have missed the patently obvious, and a pointer 
at that obvious thing would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 source tarballs or cvsup?

[Abhey Shah]

Hi,
If you use a linux kernel greater then 2.6.14 then you should be able 
to do something like this (you might need to use the numerical ip 
address)
sudo mount -t 9p sources.cs.bell-labs.com /mnt/9
then cd /mnt/9/plan9/sys/src has the source code of the system with the 
kernel code in 9

or download and install inferno and do mount -A 
tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com!9fs /n/remote in a shell from within 
inferno

Abhey

On 31 May 2006, at 11:25, Robert Watson wrote:

>
> Dear Plan9er's,
>
> For the last couple of years, I've been running a kernel source code 
> reference, fxr.watson.org, that contains the kernel sources of a 
> number of operating systems (initially FreeBSD and Linux, now also 
> many other BSD's, Open Solaris, Darwin, etc).  I did this because I 
> wanted a place I could go to easily compare design approaches and 
> implementations of kernels; however, it appears I now have a pretty 
> large number of regular visitors.
>
> I've had a number of requests to include Plan 9 source on the site, 
> but have always stalled in adding it when reaching a somewhat critical 
> question: how to get the source code?  I must be approaching this the 
> wrong way!  I've perused the cm.bell-labs.com wiki a moderate amount, 
> and discovered it's easy to download a compiled ISO, to peruse the 
> source online, or to find directions for downloading the source using 
> integrated Plan 9 tools.  I've been having trouble finding a way to 
> automatically update a local copy of the source on a FreeBSD box 
> (i.e., cvs cvsup, anonymous cvs, rsync, ..), which is what I need in 
> order to put it up on the web site.  That or a simple source tarball I 
> can update once in a while.
>
> I'm probably being stupid, and have missed the patently obvious, and a 
> pointer at that obvious thing would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert N M Watson
>

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 source tarballs or cvsup?

["Nils O. Selåsdal"]

Abhey Shah wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> If you use a linux kernel greater then 2.6.14 then you should be able to 
> do something like this (you might need to use the numerical ip address)
> sudo mount -t 9p sources.cs.bell-labs.com /mnt/9
> then cd /mnt/9/plan9/sys/src has the source code of the system with the 
> kernel code in 9
> 
> or download and install inferno and do mount -A 
> tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com!9fs /n/remote in a shell from within inferno

Other options would include crawling 
http://cm.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/ once in a while,
though that might not be quite polite.

Or simply download,unpack, mount the ISO and copy the source from it.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 source tarballs or cvsup?

[Russ Cox]

I have arranged things so that a copy of the 
Plan 9 kernel sources can be downloaded from
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/extra/9.tgz.
It is updated nightly, shortly after 2am (US Eastern).

Enjoy.
Russ