From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 07:19:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A6CC16A50A for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:19:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C1943D70 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:19:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (83.253.29.241) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44A2F19F00B53CED for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:19:35 +0200 Received: (qmail 46337 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2006 09:19:35 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 22 Aug 2006 09:19:35 +0200 Received: (qmail 10910 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Aug 2006 09:19:35 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:19:35 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20060822071935.GA10858@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper References: <200608211444.50152.gerard@seibercom.net> <44EA0352.7020206@u.washington.edu> <44irkl27pi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44EA9866.3030305@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44EA9866.3030305@infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] CVSUP (was "Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??") X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:19:42 -0000 On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:38:46AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Garrett Cooper 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). Not quite a drop in replacement. csup(1) does not (yet) support CVS mode which is used to maintain a local copy of the repository. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se