Idea about the ports tree included in the release

[RW]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:06:48 -0800
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> RW wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:00:59 -0800
> > Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >> How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file
> >> with the tarball ...
> >> since you could start from there and immediately update to the
> >> latest version without having to pull down the whole tree again.
> > 
> > c[v]sup doesn't have to pull the whole tree again if it doesn't
> > have a checkout file, ...
> 
> I think you dramatically misunderstand what I'm suggesting, and why it
> would be beneficial.

I have, but I don't feel too bad about it, given that you are
referring to a fairly subtle problem that isn't documented in the
csup man-page, and was brought up in a sub-thread of an unnamed
thread in a different mailing list.

For the benefit of people that don't read everything in the stable list.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/51460