Jase Thew wrote: > 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). By random version I mean any exact version I need, not only head of branch or tag. rik > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Sun Dec 04 2011 - 12:09:39 UTC
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