Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:47:54 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: re <re@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... Message-ID: <1345729674.52121.4.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <20120823225855.U33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20120823225855.U33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>
> > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
> > csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
> > If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1.
>
> Assuming the stupid question is the one you didn't ask, just to clarify:
> does this mean that c*sup won't work with these RCs in particular, or
> that CVS is dead and SVN becomes mandatory from 9.1-RELEASE?
>
> cheers, Ian
>
The latter. If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates
of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for
release branches (releng/*) from now on. Updates of the CVS repository
will continue for the existing stable/* and head for now. I don't think
anything has been decided on when that will stop.
--
Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to | kensmith@buffalo.edu
there, funny things are everywhere. |
- Theodor Geisel |
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