FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots

[Claude Buisson]

On 10/11/2012 02:09, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:02:40AM +0200, Michael Ross wrote:
>>>> - I had to install a complete VCS I have no (other) need of,
>>>
>>> Unfortunate, but not hugely significant (Just a bit of  disk space).
>>
>> I think it is rather significant:
>>
>
> FWIW, you can compile the svn binary elsewhere, statically linked, and
> save the dependency problem by copying the resulting binary around.
>

Lucky people who have an "elsewhere".

And the static binary is as much bloated than the dynamic ones.

Compare it with this poor csup, which gave great services for a small price.

> I do this on many machines, and even have a static svn binary in
> /root/bin as a fallback in case things blow up badly and I cannot access
> /usr/local.
>
> (I also do the same thing with the pkgng pkg-static binary...)
>
> Glen
>

Claude Buisson