From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 12 13:35: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corleone.idealab.com (mx2.idealab.com [64.208.8.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BF5537B405 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@compete.com) Received: (qmail 12214 invoked by alias); 12 Jun 2001 20:35:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 12139 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2001 20:35:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cartman.boston.geekhouse.net) (10.5.1.109) by corleone.idealab.com with SMTP; 12 Jun 2001 20:35:04 -0000 Received: by cartman.boston.geekhouse.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A75B6324C; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:34:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:34:57 -0400 From: Jim Mock To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Mark Evenson , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore? Message-ID: <20010612163457.A6283@cartman.boston.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@compete.com References: <3B25CAEC.27AF9D30@cisco.com> <3B265CE9.516AFB04@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B265CE9.516AFB04@cisco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 at 11:18:17 -0700, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > Mark Evenson wrote: > > W Gerald Hicks 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 -- - jim mock www.compete.com - jim@FreeBSD.org - - senior systems administrator - Compete, Inc. - ph: 1.617.867.7035 - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message