From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 11 08:18:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8427816A41F for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:18:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lulf@samfundet.no) Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no (cassarossa.samfundet.no [129.241.93.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A84443D45 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:18:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lulf@samfundet.no) Received: from lulf by cassarossa.samfundet.no with local (Exim 4.50) id 1EEN2o-0005Hh-6W for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:18:34 +0200 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:18:34 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050911081834.GA20281@samfundet.no> References: <200509101915.32081@harrymail> <43231B50.7010302@gmx.de> <20050911001659.GA62710@dragon.NUXI.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050911001659.GA62710@dragon.NUXI.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Ulf Lilleengen X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:08:27 +0000 Subject: Re: cvsup stuff in BETA4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:18:36 -0000 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