FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

[Ian Smith]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:47:54 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
 > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
 > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
 > >  > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS.  So
 > >  > csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
 > >  > If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1.
 > > 
 > > Assuming the stupid question is the one you didn't ask, just to clarify: 
 > > does this mean that c*sup won't work with these RCs in particular, or 
 > > that CVS is dead and SVN becomes mandatory from 9.1-RELEASE?
 > > 
 > > cheers, Ian
 > > 
 > 
 > The latter.  If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates
 > of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for
 > release branches (releng/*) from now on.  Updates of the CVS repository
 > will continue for the existing stable/* and head for now.  I don't think
 > anything has been decided on when that will stop.

Thanks Ken.  I'm a bit POLAxed; guess I don't read enough lists ..