FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots

[Ben Morrow]

Quoth Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Claude Buisson <clbuisson at orange.fr> wrote:
> 
> > I can easily understand that developpers are happy to switch to new tools,
> > but
> > the question is: do FreeBSD developpers care a bit about non developpers,
> > and
> 
> FreeBSD developers are required to keep their development systems and tools
> with the needs of non-developers as the primary requirement?

We're not talking about the systems used for development, but the
systems used for distribution of the OS to users. Development moved away
from CVS a long time ago, but the mirrors were kept so that users could
keep using csup. If 'you' (FSVO) want to drop the mirrors, for obvious
reasons, it would be helpful to the rest of us if some alternative could
be provided which is functionally equivalent.

I am given to understand, but have not yet tested, that freebsd-update
can be used to update just the 'src' component. If this works reliably
(and doesn't mess anything else up in a built-from-source system), it
seems like a good answer to me, at least for those tracking -RELEASE
branches rather than -STABLE. One solution to this dilemma might be to
just document that as the officially-supported way to obtain the source.

Ben