removing CVS in Handbook Updating and Upgrading chapter

[Eitan Adler]

On 26 January 2013 21:05, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>

>> Not sure if I need to explain this, but:
>> For a large number of system integrators, building userland/kernel from
>> source is critical.
>> Most of these builds happen before ports/pkg get installed, (if they even
>> do).  The current state of SVN, binary packages, ports mechanism changes,
>> and otherwise- all make for some nasty chicken/egg problems for many systems
>> integrators.

We should certainly be striving to remove references to CVS from as
many places as possible.  I have no objections to leaving one
(obviously marked) chapter about the old way of doing things.

> This part of the Handbook refers to fetching source for -CURRENT or -STABLE.
> We should not be suggesting CVS to new users who want to run development
> versions of FreeBSD.  It's a misdirection, like a Perldoc-esque "here's an
> example, but you should never, ever do this".
>
> Existing CVS users already know how to use it, being existing and all. So
> the removal of CVS information from this chapter should not harm anyone
> already using it and should help by not steering newcomers to the wrong
> tool.

+1


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Eitan Adler