Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:33:36 -0600 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050210143336.GE19631@hex.databits.net> In-Reply-To: <420AFEC2.2080403@mac.com> References: <200502061104.37960.reso3w83@verizon.net> <68a08ad2f9cff22dfa603b47311158cd@beforever.com> <20050209145329.GA27679@wirehub.nl> <20050209.082507.35867907.imp@bsdimp.com> <420AF652.7040308@mac.com> <20050210060344.GA54763@dan.emsphone.com> <420AFEC2.2080403@mac.com>
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--eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:27:14AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > You bet. :-) But darned few people using CVS seem to use cvsup in the= =20 > first place, much less understand cvsup well enough to use it in CVS mode= =20 > rather than in checkout mode. >=20 > [ I suspect my point is less true for many readers of -current, and more= =20 > true anywhere else than on a FreeBSD mailing list. ] Only in recent times have there been more than one or two anoncvs mirrors for FreeBSD. Quite frankly, anoncvs sucks the life out of the machines it's on. I encourage people to use cvsup to grab the repository and do cvs operations locally. Also, there's ports/net/cvsup-mirror which makes it a trivial task.. and it's been around for a long time. Regards, --=20 wca --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCC3DAF47idPgWcsURAm01AJ41rTewUAAK5EkZmdfbHnwRRBLTqwCggy6L hEj6SqYLUoQ2nkImHIEFQPg= =xSXh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz--
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