From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 26 22:46:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08236 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:46:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (root@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08229 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:46:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@sunyit.edu) Received: from ppp.ios.com (ppp-2.ts-5.nyc.idt.net [169.132.97.146]) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA12827; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 02:47:01 GMT Message-Id: <199712270247.CAA12827@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Planning on configuring a machine for cvsup? Try this... Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 01:39:25 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk This is silly, but if you had an option on it to fetch a GUI version i think that would be appreciated... some people just like gfx.... plus CVSup looks cool in X :) -Alfred ---------- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard > To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Planning on configuring a machine for cvsup? Try this... > Date: Friday, December 26, 1997 10:20 AM > > Just a rough idea I've been playing with, but potentially useful > and eliminating lots of beginner questions. > > pkg_add ftp://freebsd.org/pub/jkh/cvsupit.tgz > > Will update your cvsup to 15.2 (static, nogui) and interactively > configure a cvsupfile for the most commonly chosen options. It won't > bring up fancy submenus for all the src-foo and ports-foo sub-options, > no, but it will let you specify the coarser grained details (which is > I think all that most people want anyway). If somebody feels > ambitious enough to create the "custom" menu options for src-* and > ports-*, please feel free to look at the package's installation > script. They could be added easily by anyone willing to type in all > the dialog foo. > > Jordan > > >