[RFC] A Handbook Section on Updating the Documentation Set

Manolis Kiagias sonic2000gr at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 08:48:15 UTC 2009


Ben Kaduk wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> There is a note in the synopsis of the 'Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD'
>> chapter that cvsup may be substituted by csup in the chapter's instructions.
>> Currently, cvsup has a "cvs mode" used to replicate entire repositories (and
>> not simply performing a checkout as csup does). This is mostly used by
>> developers though, and most handbook instructions use cvsup exactly like
>> csup.
>> AFAIK, there is an effort to introduce this functionality in csup too. CVSup
>> will then become redundant. Until then it will unfortunately keep causing
>> confusion to lots of people.
>>     
>
>
> Actually, the repository mode for csup hit the CURRENT
> tree a couple days ago ...
>
> -Ben Kaduk
>
>   
Thanks! Will this be MFCed? It would be nice to have in 7-STABLE.



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