From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 0:31:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mokimaki.ethereal.net (mokimaki.ethereal.net [209.228.7.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB2237B82B; Wed, 3 May 2000 00:31:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@mokimaki.ethereal.net) Received: (from jkb@localhost) by mokimaki.ethereal.net (8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta10) id e437V5b70091; Wed, 3 May 2000 00:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 00:31:05 -0700 From: Jan Koum To: Peter Wemm Cc: Nik Clayton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/share/examples/cvsup -> /usr/local/share/examples/cvsup Message-ID: <20000503003105.D96610@ethereal.net> References: <20000501142517.3C4641CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.11i In-Reply-To: <20000501142517.3C4641CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:25:17AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD mokimaki.ethereal.net 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE X-Unix-Uptime: 11:01AM up 11 days, 5 hrs, 21 users, load averages: 0.27, 0.26, 0.20 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i agree with peter. first thing i do after a fresh OS install is ftp over binary from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CVSup/binaries/ the next thing is do is: $ cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ . $ vi $ ./cvsup -g -L 2 so your change won't be the end of the day, but it will just extra step. [or i just get to learn cvsup command line options ;] -- yan On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:25:17AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Would anyone object to pulling /usr/share/examples/cvsup out of the base > > system, and into /usr/local/share/examples/cvsup, to be installed by the > > CVSup port? There's no technical reason for the change, but it would be > > more consistent with our other ports. > > Which cvsup port would get it? There are two... > > And what about the folks who ftp the binary and never install the ports > collection? They use the /usr/share/examples stuff as a base. I certainly > do not install the ports dist at sysinstall time and only do so eventually > after cvsup'ing the ncvs tree and checking source and ports out of there. > > Also, the share/examples stuff is supposed to be preset for getting the > active branch that the release is from, when using checkout mode. To > duplicate that in the port you'd need multiple versions of the files and be > sensitive on the OS version. > > Cheers, > -Peter > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message