CVSup port upgrade

Frank Laszlo laszlof at tvog.net
Tue Mar 29 10:16:54 PST 2005


Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

>>I didn't have time to make a new snapshot.  You can build it by
>>taking the cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz sources and applying
>>"ports/net/cvsup/files/patch-ae" from the FreeBSD ports collection.
>>I'll attach the patch to save you some time.
>>    
>>
>
>It would save everyone time if you, the maintainer of the port and the
>author of this software, would just provide binary packages after there
>is an update.  Your software is *HEAVILY* relied upon, so updates of
>this nature are somewhat time-critical.  Sorry if this comes off as
>sounding harsh, but I have seen you do this a few times in the past,
>and it has frustrated myself and other administrators greatly.
>
>Due to all of this silliness, I have made binary packages available
>for x86 architectures on both 4.11-STABLE and 5.3-STABLE.  I've built
>both static (STATIC=true) and dynamic shared versions ("the norm")
>for those who want either/or.  No custom compile flags were used for
>these; standard *.mk files were relied upon.
>
>http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/
>
>Have fun.
>
>  
>

This is useful if the intended party is looking to install it on a 
FreeBSD system, the person in question is using cvsupd
in a non-standard environment. (Linux system) So they would be required 
to build it from source anyways.

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo


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