svn commit: r214199 - stable/8

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:29:10 +0200
"Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:05:00 +0200, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >
> >> +20101022:
> >> +	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
> >> +	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
> >> +	revision 211583 (r210245 if building stable/8 kernel on head,
> >> +	r211584 for stable/7).  A symptom of incorrect ld version is
> >> +	different addresses for set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu
> >> +	symbol in kernel and/or modules.
> >
> > Since many of our users still rely on cvsup to update FreeBSD source, it  
> > might be useful to provide rough date thresholds for the branches in  
> > addition to the Subversion changeset numbers (which are less easy to  
> > deal with when checking out with cvsup/cvs).
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Robert
> 
> As a non-freebsd developer is there an advantage to do svn checkout in  
> stead of c(v)sup?
> 

As a FreeBSD developer (but now only ports), I still use c(v)sup to keep
my CVS and src/ports trees up-to-date.

I also occasionally check out the svn tree, but far less frequently than
CVS.

AFAIK the project doesn't have as many svn mirrors as it does CVS
mirrors, but I might be wrong.

--
Gary Jennejohn