Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:06:47 +0100 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn - but smaller? Message-ID: <op.wrddllta8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local> In-Reply-To: <20130123144050.GG51786@e-Gitt.NET> References: <20130123144050.GG51786@e-Gitt.NET>
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:40:50 +0100, Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-gitt.net> wrote: > Hi, > > in ancient times there was cvsup. cvsup was a PITA if you wanted (or > needed) to install it via ports, the only reasonable way was to use > pkg_add for that if you didn't want to pollute your system with > otherwise unneeded software. > > Then there came csup. Small, in the base. You could install FreeBSD and > the first task (for me and my environment) was often to simply csup to > -STABLE (or a known good version of that) and to build an up-to-date and > customised system. Like tayloring make.conf and src.conf to my needs and > leave out most of the stuff I don't need on my system and in the kernel. > Software and drivers that aren't there can't fail and won't be a > security problem. > > Times have been changing, we're now up to svn. svn is far more modern > than cvs and there are pretty good reasons to use it. > > However, I either overlook something important or we are now at the > point we had with cvsup in the early days: The software I need to > (source-)update the system doens't come with the base and installing svn > is a PITA. It pulls in a whole lot of dependencies, at the time being in > FBSD-9.1-R I cannot even pkg_add -r subversion out of the box. And in > the end I have my system polluted with software and libraries I don't > really need in many cases for anything else. > > So, is there some alternative small svn client, that leaves a > drastically smaller footprint probably somewhere around, probably even > in the ports or is there anything I'm missing? The current situaion for > me is a bit annoying. From the user's or admin's point of view at least. > I didn't even see an option in svn to not build the server components, > which would probably already help to make things smaller? > > Thanx, > Oliver > I've read about this initiative. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/des/svnsup/ Maybe you can help there. Ronald.
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