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On 01/26/2011 12:00, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi,
> Alex
>> order to build the system. the VCS however is not part of the build toolchain
>> however (except 'make update' maybe).
>
> Some good points,  but also remember make release also uses cvs
> 	 grep CVS /usr/src/release/Makefile

A) The fact that 'make release' uses cvs is not a feature
B) It is quite trivially worked around (I speak from experience)


hth,

Doug

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