Removing CVS from HEAD
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Sep 14 22:39:02 UTC 2012
On Sep 14, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Markiyan Kushnir wrote:
> On 14.09.2012 11:44, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> Markiyan Kushnir<markiyan.kushnir at gmail.com> writes:
>>> I think I can replace csup with freebsd-update/portsnap pair for
>>> upgrading the src and ports trees only, and still be able to build
>>> everything from sources.
>>
>> You'd be better off using svn for your source tree.
>>
>> DES
>
> Well, yes. I see that I will have to use svn for source updates. Even if I could update the src and ports trees via freebsd-update/portsnap, I couldn't use it to track the sources between releases, or to track the HEAD.
>
> I just wanted to see if I can retain the convenience of the system being able to update its sources without the help of any ports app (which the svn is). If it's not possible, I will "factor out" the source update outside my upgrade scenario.
Have we finally managed to document this as the preferred way to update?
Warner
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