Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:48:32 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> To: Jase Thew <freebsd@beardz.net> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: CVS removal from the base Message-ID: <4EDA36C0.7090109@inse.ru> In-Reply-To: <4ED9EAD0.3050207@beardz.net> References: <CADe0-4kEJsj5pe6h4ZVPGg-hFEjE7oC4Ya8VO7sdW9W3WZiajg@mail.gmail.com> <20111202115446.GB25963@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <CADe0-4=8z%2BpFAem83xMkYXYZCgCt9r_tX64he5Vx95OkAJqtFQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmonQQ-yHrDox35gpuaXXYV5j%2BUXOJH5jr93m3j=uBgbkWA@mail.gmail.com> <4ED974A2.7080606@FreeBSD.org> <4ED9EA27.8090206@inse.ru> <4ED9EAD0.3050207@beardz.net>
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Jase Thew wrote: > On 03/12/2011 09:21, Roman Kurakin wrote: >> Doug Barton wrote: >>> [...] >>> The fact that we have so many people who are radically >>> change-averse, no >>> matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. >>> >>> This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the >>> majority view seems to lean heavily towards "If I use it, it must be >>> the >>> default and/or in the base" rather than seeing ports as part of the >>> overall operating SYSTEM. >> 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. rik > Regards, > > Jase.
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