Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Dewayne Geraghty dewayne.geraghty at heuristicsystems.com.au
Fri Jan 4 04:46:00 UTC 2013


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Erich Dollansky
> Sent: Friday, 4 January 2013 12:26 PM
> To: Patrick M. Hausen
> Cc: Eitan Adler; freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?
> 
> 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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Erich, If there's a more lightweight way than :
1. cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion
2. turning off all options
3. turn on these options: ENHANCED_KEYWORD P4_STYLE_MARKERS STATIC
4. make install
5. Copy the svn as needed. The image should be 4.2MB
Then I'd be happy to adopt.

Regards, Dewayne.



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