removing CVS in Handbook Updating and Upgrading chapter

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 27 07:20:40 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 02:11:23AM -0500, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
> Hi Warren, All,
> 
> I don't mean to exasperate you by pushing this thread, but this
> is a critical entry point for new FreeBSD users,
> 
> [...]
> 
> However, Nov. 17 isn't very long ago, warning of a process change
> which people have used and relied on for well over a decade- the
> kind of users which represent the majority of the base of the FreeBSD
> project, (people running lots of servers).
> 

Contradiction aside, recent events force the deprecation of CVS/cvsup.
It should have happened a long time ago (2007) when the src/ tree moved
from CVS to SVN.

Glen

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