Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:32:58 -0700
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:17:49AM -0700, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote:
> An opinion about having a csvup-like program in the base system, from a user
> that is not a developer :
> - It is a real pain to go find the cvsup package everytime I need to setup a
> freebsd box... the versions are different for each freebsd release,  and I
> can never use the same URL with pkg_add... If I could, this wouldn't be a
> big deal, because I could just script this once and use many times.
> I use cvsup to sync /usr/src and /usr/ports. The first think I do (and
> probably everybody else) after installing a RELEASE, is to cvsup /usr/src,
> and buildworld to apply the patches and stress-test the box before going to
> production. When I first started using freebsd about 2 years ago, I was
> wondering why a so much needed and widely used tool was not present in the
> base system, while things much less used and more dangerous were
> (bind,ntp,sendmail,telnetd,etc).  Having a cvs-like program in the base
> system is not just a natural addition, but pretty much requirement for most
> simple users like me.

No version number is needed, just type "pkg_add -r cvsup" or "pkg_add -r
cvsup-without-gui" (what I use).  That my first step when I install a
FreeBSD box.

-- Brooks

Received on Wed Jul 07 2004 - 16:32:59 UTC

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