From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 17:51:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: arch@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F8B16A420; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:51:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDFA43D45; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:51:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D526A997B2B; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:51:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21979-04-2; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:51:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-5062e7e3.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.231.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693A19979E6; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:51:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4405DF0A.7080101@t-hosting.hu> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:51:06 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxime Henrion References: <20060301170306.GZ55746@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20060301170306.GZ55746@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:51:18 -0000 Maxime Henrion wrote: > Hey all, > > >I have released a new snapshot of csup a few minutes ago, called >csup-snap-20060301. You can grab it at http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html. >This last snapshot finally brings in support for the refuse files, as >well as the -i and -A options. At this point, >csup is pretty much feature complete as far as checkout mode is >concerned. To sum things up, besides CVS mode, the only features >missing are : > > - Authentication (rarely used, plus someone has a patch for this), > - Executes (shell commands sent by the server, even more rarely used), > - The -k and -d options and the "destDir" parameters that are > more debugging features than real features, > - An Xaw3d GUI (just kidding). > >So I think it is now time to import csup in FreeBSD base system so that >our users finally have a way to update their sources with a bare >install, and am requesting comments/opinions/problem reports on the >matter as long as it doesn't degenerate into a bikeshed. > >For those interested in CVS mode, I'll now start working on this soon, >but cannot guarantee that I'll ever have it finished. I've been >unemployed for a few months now which allowed me to get this far, but I >will soon need to get a new job for obvious reasons. If you would like >to see CVS mode happening and can spare some money, please consider >making a donation to my Paypal account (id mux@FreeBSD.org). I take >advantage of this mail to thank Garance Drosehn that has generously >donated me some money to help me on this task already. > > > Thanks a lot, csup is very great: fast and lightweight. :) CVSup was a huge pain to install. I hope you'll get enough donation to implement the cvs mode, too. :) Regards, Gabor Kovesdan