From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 14:25:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB972106564A; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:25:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF2B8FC17; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:25:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q7NEP5RM061091; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:25:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) From: Dennis Glatting To: Ken Smith In-Reply-To: <1345729674.52121.4.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20120823225855.U33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1345729674.52121.4.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:25:05 -0700 Message-ID: <1345731905.41423.6.camel@btw.pki2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: q7NEP5RM061091 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd@pki2.com Cc: freebsd-stable , re , Ian Smith Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:25:14 -0000 On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 09:47 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > > > > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been > > > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So > > > csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1. > > > If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1. > > > > Assuming the stupid question is the one you didn't ask, just to clarify: > > does this mean that c*sup won't work with these RCs in particular, or > > that CVS is dead and SVN becomes mandatory from 9.1-RELEASE? > > > > cheers, Ian > > > > The latter. If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates > of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for > release branches (releng/*) from now on. Updates of the CVS repository > will continue for the existing stable/* and head for now. I don't think > anything has been decided on when that will stop. > Looking in the handbook ([1]) I do not see the mechanics of how to set up a mirror, of which I have three CVS mirrors in different infrastructures. Is there a web page somewhere on how to set up, synchronize, maintain, and use a local mirror? [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html