Re: CVS removal from the base

From: Jase Thew <freebsd_at_beardz.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:53:19 +0000
On 03/12/2011 14:48, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> Jase Thew wrote:
>> On 03/12/2011 09:21, Roman Kurakin wrote:
 >>>> [SNIP]
>>> You are right in general, except one small factor. We are talking about
>>> bootstrap.
>>> CVS is used by many as the one of the ways to get the sources to the
>>> freshly
>>> installed system to recompile to the last available source. It will
>>> become inconvenient
>>> to do it through the process of installing some ports for that.
>>> Especially if corresponding
>>> ports would require some other ports as dependences.
>>
>> As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, CVS doesn't cover
>> csup, a utility in base which allows you to obtain the source
>> trivially for the scenario you provide above. (Explicity ignoring
>> cvsup which requires a port).
> Does csup allows to checkout a random version from local cvs mirror?
> So better to say csup(cvsup) does not cover cvs.

Not quite sure what you are referring to by "random version". But csup 
certainly allows you to obtain the source as described in your scenario 
above ("last available source", even source at a particular point in time).

Also, when I said CVS doesn't cover csup, I meant any removal of CVS 
from base would still leave csup available for obtaining source.

Regards,

Jase.
Received on Sat Dec 03 2011 - 21:53:27 UTC

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