HEADS UP: Importing csup into base

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 1 09:16:12 PST 2006


Maxime Henrion wrote:
> So I think it is now time to import csup in FreeBSD base system so that
> our users finally have a way to update their sources with a bare
> install, and am requesting comments/opinions/problem reports on the
> matter as long as it doesn't degenerate into a bikeshed.

Yes please!

I'd love to see CVS mode and authentication support as well, but given
the number of people who don't apply security fixes (over 60% of FreeBSD
6.0 systems running portsnap are still running 6.0-RELEASE) I'd say that
anything which makes updating easier is great.

Colin Percival


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