Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:14:28 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com> Subject: Re: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one? Message-ID: <45EA63C4.8010703@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <7358E9CA-7FAA-461D-B0F0-16A3DEBEA59C@ece.cmu.edu> References: <2942dae0703031923q2887c59dh85f103bff424e7b7@mail.gmail.com> <7358E9CA-7FAA-461D-B0F0-16A3DEBEA59C@ece.cmu.edu>
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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> It's a little out of date; instead of cvsup, you use csup which is in
> the base system (and only supports updating the base system, hence
> portsnap).
That last bit is not actually correct. csup will update anything cvsup
can in checkout mode, so you can check out a src tree, a ports tree, a
doc tree, etc. with csup. The only thing you can't do is mirror a
repository in cvs mode. So far only cvsup can do that.
hth,
Doug
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