What replaces csup?

[pete wright]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:26:45 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> For ports, it's probably worth saving the distfile directory along with
>> local diffs.  Move it back into place after the svn checkout of the
>> ports tree.
>
> PMFJI. Newbie here: What's wrong with using SVN for src, and portsnap for
> ports?
>

my personal issue is the fact that csup and portsnap are both part of
the base system whereas svn would require installation via ports or
the pkg utility.  it is frankly a minor inconvenience - and hopefully
there will be a csup like utility for svn available in base one day.

-pete

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pete wright
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