The cvsup exporter is dead, Long live cvsup!

[Chris Timmons]

I've taken down cvsup.freebsd.org.  Could a DNS admin remove the CNAME 
pointing into our network?

 	cvsup.freebsd.org is an alias for bsn0-0.edmz.cwu.edu.

Regards,
-c

On Mon, 26 May 2014, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Folks..
>
> On May 21st, while trying to tidy up loose ends over the expiration of
> RELENG_8_3, I discovered that the exporter was corrupted again.
>
> I glanced back at the previously published milestones for the EOL of the cvsup
> export process and they're *all* behind us.
>
> We said it would continue on a "best effort basis until 9.0-RELEASE, 8.3-
> RELEASE, 7.4-RELEASE are no longer supported".  These are all expired.
>
> When I discovered that the exporter staging areas were damaged, I added the
> usual markers to the cvs files and let them be distributed.  Nobody said
> anything that I'm aware of.
>
> Therefore, I am intending to not fix it.  While it could be fixed (again), I
> feel it is time to put it to rest.  The temporary transition aid lasted 5
> years longer than I imagined.
>
> I'll post a -announce message shortly.  I archived the last changes to the
> exporter on ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVS-archive (they'll be
> visible soon), and will be disconnecting the machinery by May 31st.
>
> We provide daily updates for source and ports tarballs for every branch on
> ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/development/tarballs/ so there's a way in from
> the cold for even ancient branches.
>
>
>
> On a related note:  reminder: if you are mirroring www.freebsd.org via cvsup,
> please stop.  See the instructions in the mail I sent a few days ago about how
> to obtain it via rsync.
>
> -- 
> Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV
> UTF-8: for when a ' just won\342\200\231t do.