Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:30:52 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: anoncvs.FreeBSD.org gone? Message-ID: <20040525093052.GQ700@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <40B3102C.9010400@alumni.rice.edu> References: <40B2FEAF.7050701@alumni.rice.edu> <6.1.0.6.1.20040525091306.0370d840@popserver.sfu.ca> <40B3102C.9010400@alumni.rice.edu>
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Jon Noack wrote: > On 05/25/04 03:17, Colin Percival wrote: > >At 09:07 25/05/2004, Jon Noack wrote: > >>For the last couple days I have been unable to resolve > >>anoncvs.FreeBSD.org. It appears to have disappeared even from the > >>FreeBSD DNS servers: > > > >I believe that anoncvs was recently taken offline due to security > >concerns. > > OK. > > >>The handbook still mentions anoncvs.FreeBSD.org -- what is the best > >>anonymous CVS server for someone in the US? > > > >This may be a silly question, but why do you need anoncvs? > > Well, I've made various local modifications to the source tree that are > easy to keep around with anoncvs. For example, I got mad at the output > of file(1) for recent versions of FreeBSD and created a patch for it > (see below for more info). I've written a script to reapply the patch > after every CVSup, but this script is only workable if you have a > limited number of patches. After a while (adding more patches) I got > fed up and started using anoncvs instead and let CVS do the merging. > Can you recommend a better way of doing this? I wouldn't it put it past > myself to miss the obvious here... You should simply use CVSup to get the CVS repository (just remove the tag=foo setting in your supfile) and then checkout a local CVS tree from this repo. This is how I (and AFAIK, many developers) do to maintain patches against FreeBSD. It's very convenient. Cheers, Maxime
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