Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 09:43:00 UTC 2013


On 4 Jan 2013 09:25, "Erich Dollansky" <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:38:05 +0100
> "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen at punkt.de> wrote:
>
> > Am 03.01.2013 um 19:21 schrieb Matthew Seaman
> > <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>:
> > > On 03/01/2013 17:48, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > >> I'm a bit reluctant to installing svn on every system that needs
> > >> source updates. Are there more lightweight ways?
> > >
> > > freebsd-update(8)
> > >
> > > which is what 'make update' will run by default and in the absence
> > > of any configuration to use other mechanisms.
> >
> >
> > Sorry for being too terse in my first post. Seems like I should have
> > a closer look at freebsd-update. "Of course" I have lines like this
> > in my /etc/make.conf on each machine that I update from sources:
>
> no matter, you showed how deeply this integration was up to the point
> that you did not notice it anymore.
>
> You also showed that there was a reliable infrastructure available
> which served you for years without any problems.
>
> What will happen after the jump into the cold water?

Is there a problem with using freebsd-update for your sources too?

Chris


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