From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 21:42:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EB216A421 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 21:42:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E33013C44B for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 21:42:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from [10.9.204.128] (dsl093-061-215.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.215]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B346A1; Fri, 25 May 2007 17:42:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20070525195949.GB1824@kobe.laptop> References: <20070525074925.GA19294@uk.tiscali.com> <20070525104342.GA2761@kobe.laptop> <19A57FD4-B9D7-4C47-9E7B-1691110F4C27@ece.cmu.edu> <20070525195949.GB1824@kobe.laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:42:34 -0400 To: Giorgos Keramidas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using Subversion for binary distribution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 21:42:38 -0000 On May 25, 2007, at 15:59 , Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-05-25 08:01, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" > wrote: >> On May 25, 2007, at 6:43 , Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> PS: Have you already tried systems like sysutils/cfengine and >>> given up >>> on them for your own reasons? >> >> I think he's talking about something like freebsd-update, not SCM. > > Oops. I was confused then (and posted a large-ish post about SCM > tools > which I think are better than Subversion for multi-host management). > > Subversion *is* an SCM tool, hence the confusion. Oh well... Whoops, definitions and TLA confusion. Where I come from you can use tools like Subversion as part of a system configuration management mechanism, but Subversion is not very good at it by itself. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH