Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:38:46 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [OT] CVSUP (was "Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??") Message-ID: <44EA9866.3030305@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44irkl27pi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <web-573050583@mailsvc.com> <200608211444.50152.gerard@seibercom.net> <44EA0352.7020206@u.washington.edu> <44irkl27pi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> writes:
>
>> Gerard Seibert wrote:
>
>>> IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially
>>> if he is not familiar with the FBSD ports system. Just my opinion
>>> though.
>
>> CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a better, more
>> efficient way to download the ports Makefiles.
>
> In what way? For typical applications, lower bandwidth usage is
> supposedly an advantage of portsnap.
>
>> It will take him all of
>> 10-20 minutes to configure if he reads the documentation and uses the
>> example file.
>
> I would think so. And it can be used with arbitrary cvs trees,
> including the FreeBSD source tree. On the other hand, it doesn't
> come in the FreeBSD base system, and it doesn't sign the updates.
But csup(1) is in the base system for values of base system equal to
6.1-STABLE or better. csup(1) is cvsup(1) reimplemented in plain C
and apart from the graphical display stuff is a drop in replacement
for cvsup(1).
Cheers,
Matthew
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