7.0-BETA1.5 ISO/ftp

Freddie Cash fjwcash+freebsd at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 15:16:28 PDT 2007


On October 25, 2007 03:07 pm Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:50:54PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> > > Just a note that might save some time in the future: csup is part
> > > of the base OS now, so there's no need to install cvsup from the
> > > ports tree. Also saves a bunch of space on the drive as you don't
> > > need to compile/install the m3 ports.  csup is a drop-in
> > > replacement for cvsup.
> >
> > It is also significantly faster then cvsup
>
> But csup does not yet support CVS mode, so you can't use it to maintain
> a local copy of the repository.  For some people (including me) this
> means that csup is not yet a suitable replacement for CVSup.

Maybe not, but for the bulk of the users of cvsup, csup is a drop-in 
replacement.  :)  As with most things in Unix-land, there's more than one 
way to do things, and every one will defend to the death their way of 
doing things.  :D

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