Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Kimmo Paasiala kpaasial at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 04:59:32 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Dewayne Geraghty
<dewayne.geraghty at heuristicsystems.com.au> wrote:
>> -----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.
>

Even better,

4. make package
5. pkg_install or 'pkg install' the created package on the other machines.


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