Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Tue Jul 6 21:32:51 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:22:58PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 July 2004 11:12 pm, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > Is it really too hard to do
> >   1) pkgadd -r cvsup
> >   2) or use sysinstall to install cvsup
> >   3) or portinstall cvsup
> >   4) or cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup && make install
> 
> Not as long as you're on a system that supports it.

The discussion is about integrating an cvsup knock-off
into the base system.  Can you say bloat?  Can you say
bugs?

> For example, OpenBSD doesn't have an m3 port for non-x86 platforms

So, let Theo write a m3 port.

-- 
Steve


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