Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:54:33 +0100 From: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no cvs port? Message-ID: <20041107165433.36f25abe.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <20041107153225.GA87870@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20041107115900.613aa2f4.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041107120649.GD22451@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20041107131407.756abea4.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041107153225.GA87870@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > CVS port. I'm afraid that if you want one, you're going to have to > write your own Maybe I really should commit one. > there > isn't a 'NO_CVS' flag, so you'ld just have to go round and delete the > binaries etc. Of course there is root@curry /root> man make.conf | grep CVS NO_CVS (bool) Set to not build CVS. root@curry /root> uname -a FreeBSD curry.salatschuessel.net 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Nov 5 22:52:36 CET 2004 olivleh1@curry.salatschuessel.net:/usr/obj/i386-6.0/usr/src/sys/CURRY i386 root@curry /root> > after doing an update. On the whole though, why make > work for yourself? The latest stable version of CVS is included in > all systems more recent than 4.10-STABLE of 2004-06-29. a) 1.11.17 is in the tree which is the latest STABLE version of CVS, but not the latest. but that is not the reason. My reason is: b) when someone decides to import <whatever> revision into the base, I might not want it (for whatever reason), and I can choose to upgrade whenever I want. For example bind8->bind9 switch in the past. With NO_BIND, and dns/bind* from the ports, it's on my own when I decide to update/migrate or not. > (particularly when an 'OVERWRITE_BASE' option is used). I won't -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
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