[OT] CVSUP (was "Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??")

[Erik Trulsson]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:38:46AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> writes:
> > 
> >> Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > 
> >>> IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially
> >>> if he is not familiar with the FBSD ports system. Just my opinion
> >>> though.
> > 
> >>    CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a better, more
> >> efficient way to download the ports Makefiles.
> > 
> > In what way?  For typical applications, lower bandwidth usage is
> > supposedly an advantage of portsnap.
> > 
> >>                                                It will take him all of
> >> 10-20 minutes to configure if he reads the documentation and uses the
> >> example file.
> > 
> > I would think so.  And it can be used with arbitrary cvs trees,
> > including the FreeBSD source tree.  On the other hand, it doesn't
> > come in the FreeBSD base system, and it doesn't sign the updates.
> 
> But csup(1) is in the base system for values of base system equal to
> 6.1-STABLE or better.  csup(1) is cvsup(1) reimplemented in plain C
> and apart from the graphical display stuff is a drop in replacement
> for cvsup(1).

Not quite a drop in replacement.  csup(1) does not (yet) support CVS mode
which is used to maintain a local copy of the repository.




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