Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:28:35 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Cc: re <re@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... Message-ID: <20120824002504.L33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au> 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>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:47:54 -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. Thanks Ken. I'm a bit POLAxed; guess I don't read enough lists ..
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