Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Fri Jan 4 01:26:31 UTC 2013


Hi,

On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:48:01 +0100
"Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen at punkt.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Am 03.01.2013 um 16:36 schrieb Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>:
> > CVS/SVN should be considered a development tool.  Users should not
> > see the impact of the switch.  In theory.
> 
> 
> What is the recommended csup replacement for users that did
> 
> 	cd /usr/src && make update buildworld buildkernel
> 
> as their method of keeping the system current?

the above's line keeps the originally installed sources intact and just
recompiles them again and again and again ...
> 
> I'm a bit reluctant to installing svn on every system that needs
> source updates. Are there more lightweight ways?
> 
The line above will stay the same. Only the process of downloading the
changes will change.

Erich


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