Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Wed Jan 2 16:43:02 UTC 2013


On 1/2/13 8:05 AM, Derek Kulinski wrote:
> Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2 January 2013 06:26, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> To clarify, no-one wants to remove CVS completely, the suggestion was
>> to
>>> move it out of the base system.
>> As the developer responsible for this:
>>
>> CVS will be removed from base.  It already exists as a port in
>> devel/cvs
> Will svn be added to the base? Not long ago I run into an issue when trying to downgrade my system to 9.0.
>
> After I noticed how majority of ports were broken due to changes in the libc I decided to back out by fetching 9.1 release just to learn that svn does not work as well. There were a lot of dependencies I decided to use portupgrade which required me to recompile ruby. After that it was a lot of compiling (for example Apache because apr was broken). Having svn in the base would save tons of time in my situation.
>
Sorry, you needed to fetch 9.0 packages then*.  Putting all of that in 
base is not likely to happen.

* I wish doing this was somewhat more intuitive/easy

-Alfred


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