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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:14:26 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com>
Subject:   Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?
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On 2 January 2013 16:05, Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk> wrote:
> Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2 January 2013 06:26, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> To clarify, no-one wants to remove CVS completely, the suggestion was
>>to
>>> move it out of the base system.
>>
>>As the developer responsible for this:
>>
>>CVS will be removed from base.  It already exists as a port in
>>devel/cvs
>
> Will svn be added to the base? Not long ago I run into an issue when trying to downgrade my system to 9.0.
>
> After I noticed how majority of ports were broken due to changes in the libc I decided to back out by fetching 9.1 release just to learn that svn does not work as well. There were a lot of dependencies I decided to use portupgrade which required me to recompile ruby. After that it was a lot of compiling (for example Apache because apr was broken). Having svn in the base would save tons of time in my situation.

It certainly wouldn't, it would mean that instead of only building
when you installed the port, it would build with every buildworld :)

http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/user/des/svnsup/

needs fixing if you're feeling brave.  It won't be easy, however.

Chris


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