From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 18 04:21:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5DE1065670 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:21:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0243B8FC08 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iayy25 with SMTP id y25so7425131iay.13 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=5T7f5p5f8qhAkGYEhHlOIqmhcd9IlajzVPGeqesx/fE=; b=hoKqWCIV/aAWzVeVbNCYJB9SgKYayJM0F76AnZBKuMDaakR3C4yZGl5KKIZuvpyYOC KR8o9ZC1CY+nmGC2d5OQfnE1CHBHyaYgwfM6Wtl097SKIjkRFlxdJhJVLwlV2vWII59s +2fEJL8C0Bdx0/o+82s3Q8pGHFQ5m4+LpEpKDJ7X7tvNHERQC8QMMJJQ7NX9JgstlSBx 6yH4luofsQNL3h3wVzqGamwBlA7AQuTZcacFbo8IKZVSlglOh/IBiZzP3MTDddIffAip sz2rkgw8h5kOElNA5mpTTo7Z7xSxYaisP0A15gKh8wgKW5tTXmAdiRzesb6c6ZpSpvBP QPag== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.192.234 with SMTP id hj10mr8931289igc.53.1347942090143; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.18.141 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <780066C6E2FAB67A997876B7@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20567.50041.903201.979498@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:30 -0700 Message-ID: From: pete wright To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Paul Schmehl , Robert Huff , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What replaces csup? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:21:31 -0000 On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Robert Huff wrote: > >> >> Paul Schmehl writes: >> >>> Does csup use subversion now? Or do we need to use something >>> else to fetch source? >> >> >> As I understand it, for the average user c(vs)up and subversion >> serve the same function using different methods (both in terms of >> identifying what files need to be fetched and actually fetching >> them). At this level of discussion they are mutually exclusive. >> I have switched from csup to subversion for ports and docs. >> After modest preparation it was essentially painless. > > > The difference is that a local svn checkout has all the commit history. A > comparison recently showed 700-some megabytes more space used by the svn > checkout. > > csup updates just the files that have changed without all the overhead. svn > export can get a copy of all the current files, but it copies all of them > every time, not just the changes. > yea i agree with you. i wonder if it would be worth the effort of sharing a svn export via rsync or httpd to make fetching delta's easier and/or more efficient from a base install? -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA