Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 11:26:08 UTC 2013


On 2 Jan 2013 11:08, "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23 at insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> > There has been some discussion about removing CVS from the base system
> > now it is no longer used.  No concensus was reached, so it's not going
> > away immediately (and would not be removed from 9.x or earlier branches
> > in any case).
>
> > CVS is (and will remain) available in ports (devel/cvs).
>
> > --
> > Peter Jeremy
>
> Now CVS may be no longer used for FreeBSD servers, but NetBSD servers
still use it for system source and pkgsrc.
>
> I like to keep up with NetBSD 6-STABLE and HEAD, maybe a final try for
NetBSD 5.2, and that includes pkgsrc.
>
> If somebody could persuade NetBSD to switch to svn, I would surely not
quarrel.

To clarify, no-one wants to remove CVS completely, the suggestion was to
move it out of the base system.

Chris


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