From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 08:59:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA29764 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 08:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29759 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 08:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id RAA20053; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:45:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id QAA01294; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:44:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970803164411.01427@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:44:11 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: David Nugent Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued References: <17040.870566767@time.cdrom.com> <199708030052.KAA17855@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199708030052.KAA17855@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 10:52:41AM +1000 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 10:52:41AM +1000, David Nugent wrote: > > I already suggested a better solution to this a few weeks ago > in private email, in which I cc'd you. [...] > > I suggest that sysinstall and the release tools do not belong > under src/ in the repository. They belong in a separate place, > say "release/", and don't even need to track the same CVS tags. > 95% of the commits you do on sysinstall are to all three > branches, which I'm sure must be a headache for you. Certainly, > the target for sysinstall needs to be modified based on release > version, but you can handle this using makefile and preprocessor > tags rather than CVS revisions (which is infinitely more complex > to maintain, I'm sure). Good idea ! -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html