HEADS UP: Importing csup into base

From: Maxime Henrion <mux_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:03:06 +0100
	Hey all,


I have released a new snapshot of csup a few minutes ago, called
csup-snap-20060301.  You can grab it at http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html.
This last snapshot finally brings in support for the refuse files, as
well as the -i <pattern> and -A <localaddr> options.  At this point,
csup is pretty much feature complete as far as checkout mode is
concerned.  To sum things up, besides CVS mode, the only features
missing are :

  - Authentication (rarely used, plus someone has a patch for this),
  - Executes (shell commands sent by the server, even more rarely used),
  - The -k and -d <limit> options and the "destDir" parameters that are
    more debugging features than real features,
  - An Xaw3d GUI (just kidding).

So I think it is now time to import csup in FreeBSD base system so that
our users finally have a way to update their sources with a bare
install, and am requesting comments/opinions/problem reports on the
matter as long as it doesn't degenerate into a bikeshed.

For those interested in CVS mode, I'll now start working on this soon,
but cannot guarantee that I'll ever have it finished.  I've been
unemployed for a few months now which allowed me to get this far, but I
will soon need to get a new job for obvious reasons.  If you would like
to see CVS mode happening and can spare some money, please consider
making a donation to my Paypal account (id mux_at_FreeBSD.org).  I take
advantage of this mail to thank Garance Drosehn that has generously
donated me some money to help me on this task already.

Cheers,
Maxime
Received on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 16:03:20 UTC

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