From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 27 13:52:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18166 for current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18159 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA07947; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:53:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven G. Kargl" Message-Id: <199610272153.NAA07947@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: -current failed In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Oct 27, 96 04:36:19 pm" To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:53:17 -0800 (PST) Cc: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, khan@vnet.net, scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Chuck Robey: > On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > > > According to Veggy Vinny: > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > > > > too. Why can't sup be put to bed permanently, now that we know for sure > > > > that cvsup works dandy? > > > > > > Hmmm, is cvsup the same way? I thought you had to grab the entire > > > source tree each time or something... > > > > > > > Sup works just fine. The last, and only, time I looked into cvsup, > > I needed to install a >50Mbyte modula-3 port. This is not a good > > use of disk space for those with limited resources and limited $$$. > > Steve, that's not true. JDP put statically compiled copies of cvsup in > incoming on ftp.freebsd.org. And sup doesn't work just like cvsup, sup > will ignore problems that cvsup will fix. > I'm unaware of the contents of the incoming directory except for 5 files I placed there (4 of which are ports and packages of xfishtank and ftnchek [now out-of-date] that have yet to make it into the ports collection.) I never claimed that sup works the same as cvsup. I stated that "sup works just fine." Sup works fine as a means of getting the files if your source tree has not been screwed up. -- Steve