anoncvs.FreeBSD.org gone?
Maxime Henrion
mux at freebsd.org
Tue May 25 02:31:54 PDT 2004
Jon Noack wrote:
> On 05/25/04 03:17, Colin Percival wrote:
> >At 09:07 25/05/2004, Jon Noack wrote:
> >>For the last couple days I have been unable to resolve
> >>anoncvs.FreeBSD.org. It appears to have disappeared even from the
> >>FreeBSD DNS servers:
> >
> >I believe that anoncvs was recently taken offline due to security
> >concerns.
>
> OK.
>
> >>The handbook still mentions anoncvs.FreeBSD.org -- what is the best
> >>anonymous CVS server for someone in the US?
> >
> >This may be a silly question, but why do you need anoncvs?
>
> Well, I've made various local modifications to the source tree that are
> easy to keep around with anoncvs. For example, I got mad at the output
> of file(1) for recent versions of FreeBSD and created a patch for it
> (see below for more info). I've written a script to reapply the patch
> after every CVSup, but this script is only workable if you have a
> limited number of patches. After a while (adding more patches) I got
> fed up and started using anoncvs instead and let CVS do the merging.
> Can you recommend a better way of doing this? I wouldn't it put it past
> myself to miss the obvious here...
You should simply use CVSup to get the CVS repository (just remove the
tag=foo setting in your supfile) and then checkout a local CVS tree
from this repo. This is how I (and AFAIK, many developers) do to
maintain patches against FreeBSD. It's very convenient.
Cheers,
Maxime
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