From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 25 05:40:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA12318 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 05:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA12242 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 05:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17214; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:37:40 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199704251237.OAA17214@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Compiling cvsup, what a joke In-Reply-To: <199704251210.WAA03571@tinny.eis.net.au> from Ernie Elu at "Apr 25, 97 10:10:00 pm" To: ernie@eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:37:40 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Right, so what you are saying is gone are the days of keeping current with > the -stable tree unless you either install the bin distributions regularly > or have a machine configured as a "development machine". > > Fair enough. > > A loss of the ease of upgrade we had in the past, thats all. > I'm not sure what your real complaint is. I'm running the same staticly linked cvsup binary on all my boxes, 2.1.x, 2.2.x and -current machines. That way I don't need the seperate modula libraries and I don't have to recompile the monster. The source is available, so I can recompile if I have to, but up to know it hasn't been necesary. BTW, I'm thinking of using it here internally to distribute some of our source. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za