Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:13:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com> To: kmenzel@whisolutions.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208230903210.92471@btw.pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <5036497F.7020501@icarz.com> References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20120823225855.U33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1345729674.52121.4.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <5036497F.7020501@icarz.com>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Ken Menzel wrote: > On 8/23/2012 9:47 AM, 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. >> > I missed this announcement as well. > > Should we all use the primary URL or is there a list of mirrors? > > Is anyone going to be updating the Handbook to reflect this? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html > > However I can see this does not even reflect the more recent use of csup > instead of cvsup. > > I found two good primers: > http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#SUBVERSION-PRIMER > > The second primer in the committer handbook seems to indicate that it is > difficult to run an SVN mirror. This appears to me to be the biggest > drawback. I have been using CVS and perforce for years, but subversion > is new to me. > Thanks. I have several cases where I cannot have machines going to the Internet to update for various reasons, including WAN loading and policies, but I can have them hit local mirrors. I have three sites: #1, Static with less than ten servers. Strong maintenance policies. #2, Mostly static with twenty servers, virtual instances, laptops, and sticks. Loose maintenance policies #3, Largely dynamic but three servers and instances are static. Regulated environment with associated maintenance policies. If CVS is fading then I need to move my CVS mirrors to SVN mirrors.
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