Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:46:31 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> Cc: devfreebsd@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS files in src Message-ID: <20050819124631.GB3082@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <43058495.1060205@yandex.ru> References: <4305681F.3030901@yandex.ru> <6e58a03050818235464f9c16a@mail.gmail.com> <43058495.1060205@yandex.ru>
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On 2005-08-19 11:04, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> wrote: >Dev FreeBSD wrote: >> Usually an individual would download the tarball to build the stuff >> and not necessarily to sync up with the tree. > > If the CVS-files would be included into src tarballs on FreeBSD ISO, > this would be another easy way to update sources.. It's a bad idea to penalize all the users with files that are only of interest to developers. The CVS subdirectories will increase the size of the source tree by a significant amount for no obvious or good reason, IMHO. >> If you need a specific release version then just pull off the sources >> using the specific release tag. > > I have own CVS-repository.. :) See? You don't need the CVS information in the install CD-ROM then, since you can easily extract it from the repository :-)
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