Archive for cvs-src

[Sandeep Kumar]

Erik Trulsson wrote:

Thanks everybody for your replies.

>On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:13:10AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
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>>Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> writes:
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>>>On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:08:21PM -0700, Sandeep Kumar wrote:
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>>>>The oldest message in 
>>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src.mbox/cvs-src.mbox seems to be 
>>>>from 2003/03/24.
>>>> Is there a way to get messages prior to that?
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>>>And what makes you think there are any prior messages?
>>>If I remember correctly it was about that time that cvs-src, cvs-ports,
>>>cvs-doc, etc. were created.  Previously all commit-messages were sent to
>>>cvs-all only, so you will have to search that list for older messages.
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>>Wrong.  These lists have existed for years.
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Actually not. Although majordomo lists contain cvs-all, I didn't find 
other cvs-* over there
http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2002/

>Are you sure?  Well, then I am probably confusing it with the split of
>CVSROOT in the repository.
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>>The reason why older messages aren't in pipermail is that 2003/03/24
>>is when we switched from majordomo to mailman.
>>
Yes, http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html clearly states the following:
An alternative way to read the mailing lists archives is to use the 
Mailman/Pipermail list archive 
<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo> (note that this archive only 
carries messages from March 2003 onward).