Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:18:34 +0200 From: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@samfundet.no> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup stuff in BETA4 Message-ID: <20050911081834.GA20281@samfundet.no> In-Reply-To: <20050911001659.GA62710@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200509101915.32081@harrymail> <43231B50.7010302@gmx.de> <20050911001659.GA62710@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On 17:16, Sat 10 Sep 05, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:43:44PM +0200, Philip S. Schulz wrote: > > on 10.09.2005 19:15 Uhr Emanuel Strobl said the following: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I just installed BETA4 on my laptop and saw that the stable-supfile still > > >has RELENG_5 as default tag. Shouldn't this be changed to RELENG_6? > > >Another question: Why are these example files in the base system while > > >cvsup itself isn't? I think they should be located > > >in /usr/local/share/examples, or /usr/local/etc together with the port... > > > > Because you would still need to build ezm3 to build cvsup. And, AFAIK, > > there are platforms where cvsup is not fully supported, amd64 comes to > > mind... > > No. It is that way purely by tradition. We feel that it is easiest to > keep the cvsup example files in the base system so that we can make it > easier for the user to have the right RELENG_X tag, etc... > > CVSup isn't in /usr/src because it is written in Modula-3 and we don't > want to bring a Modula-3 compiler into the base system. It has nothing > to do with architectures. > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) A rewrite of cvsup in C is in motion, called, csup: http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html I've been helping maxime a bit with it, but more help is appreciated! -- - Ulf Lilleengen
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