Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:19:35 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] CVSUP (was "Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??") Message-ID: <20060822071935.GA10858@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <44EA9866.3030305@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <web-573050583@mailsvc.com> <200608211444.50152.gerard@seibercom.net> <44EA0352.7020206@u.washington.edu> <44irkl27pi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44EA9866.3030305@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:38:46AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> writes: > > > >> Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > >>> IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially > >>> if he is not familiar with the FBSD ports system. Just my opinion > >>> though. > > > >> CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a better, more > >> efficient way to download the ports Makefiles. > > > > In what way? For typical applications, lower bandwidth usage is > > supposedly an advantage of portsnap. > > > >> It will take him all of > >> 10-20 minutes to configure if he reads the documentation and uses the > >> example file. > > > > I would think so. And it can be used with arbitrary cvs trees, > > including the FreeBSD source tree. On the other hand, it doesn't > > come in the FreeBSD base system, and it doesn't sign the updates. > > But csup(1) is in the base system for values of base system equal to > 6.1-STABLE or better. csup(1) is cvsup(1) reimplemented in plain C > and apart from the graphical display stuff is a drop in replacement > for cvsup(1). Not quite a drop in replacement. csup(1) does not (yet) support CVS mode which is used to maintain a local copy of the repository. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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