[RFC] A Handbook Section on Updating the Documentation Set

[Ben Kaduk]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There is a note in the synopsis of the 'Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD'
> chapter that cvsup may be substituted by csup in the chapter's instructions.
> Currently, cvsup has a "cvs mode" used to replicate entire repositories (and
> not simply performing a checkout as csup does). This is mostly used by
> developers though, and most handbook instructions use cvsup exactly like
> csup.
> AFAIK, there is an effort to introduce this functionality in csup too. CVSup
> will then become redundant. Until then it will unfortunately keep causing
> confusion to lots of people.


Actually, the repository mode for csup hit the CURRENT
tree a couple days ago ...

-Ben Kaduk