Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:34:57 -0400 From: Jim Mock <jim@compete.com> To: W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> Cc: Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore? Message-ID: <20010612163457.A6283@cartman.boston.geekhouse.net> In-Reply-To: <3B265CE9.516AFB04@cisco.com> References: <Pine.A41.3.96.1010612000229.84080E-100000@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU> <3B25CAEC.27AF9D30@cisco.com> <a0zobdeq46.fsf@panix6.panix.com> <3B265CE9.516AFB04@cisco.com>
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 at 11:18:17 -0700, W Gerald Hicks wrote:
> Mark Evenson wrote:
> > W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> writes:
> > > Cripes people, the CVS repository is available for people to be
> > > able to slide back and forth in time as necessary. It only
> > > requires a tiny bit of competence. For fair effort on your part
> > > you also gain a fair amount of liberty along with a system that
> > > has literally made computing history in terms of stability. On
> > > top of that, it's free.
> >
> > Not true: anonymous CVS access to the FreeBSD tree has not been
> > available for at least a couple years now. Or did I miss something?
> >
>
> Yeah, CVSup's ability to maintain a local repository. With this
> methodology, instead of using CVSup to keep /usr/{ports,src} up to
> date one keeps their local repo up to date and then uses cvs to
> checkout directly from there.
Uhm, there's also anoncvs.freebsd.org:
% setenv CVSROOT ":pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs"
% cvs login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org)
CVS password:
%
- jim
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