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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:18:05 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>, Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?
Message-ID:  <1516893485.42536.226.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <5ff60dd8-734c-8b97-3dca-891910299be4@zyxst.net>
References:  <201801240851.w0O8pnDl008705@sdf.org> <f4e0b36c-12e5-37fb-1c65-d2fc4046c23c@zyxst.net> <201801250622.w0P6M3Id020498@sdf.org> <5ff60dd8-734c-8b97-3dca-891910299be4@zyxst.net>

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On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 12:40 +0000, tech-lists wrote:
> 2. I don't know the difference between svnlite and svn. All I know is
> that svnlite is in base and it will be in base for reasons and one of
> those reasons will be that it works reliably. I think svn in ports might
> be more featureful, but maybe it's more buggy because of it, maybe it
> does more - I don't know. In your position I'd like fewer unknowns. I
> mean, even make cleandir fails. In circumstances like that, the first
> thing I'd do is get fresh sources.

The svn in ports is what freebsd committers use.  It works fine.  

svnlite is basically the full svn without the support for things like
perl and python plugins so that base freebsd doesn't have dependencies
on those things.

-- Ian




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