FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

Bryan Drewery bryan at shatow.net
Thu Aug 23 21:44:39 UTC 2012


On 8/23/2012 10:36 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 8/23/2012 9:28 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:47:54 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>  > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
>>  > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>  > > 
>>  > >  > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>>  > >  > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS.  So
>>  > >  > csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
>>  > >  > If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1.
>>  > > 
>>  > > Assuming the stupid question is the one you didn't ask, just to clarify: 
>>  > > does this mean that c*sup won't work with these RCs in particular, or 
>>  > > that CVS is dead and SVN becomes mandatory from 9.1-RELEASE?
>>  > > 
>>  > > cheers, Ian
>>  > > 
>>  > 
>>  > The latter.  If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates
>>  > of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for
>>  > release branches (releng/*) from now on.  Updates of the CVS repository
>>  > will continue for the existing stable/* and head for now.  I don't think
>>  > anything has been decided on when that will stop.
>>
>> Thanks Ken.  I'm a bit POLAxed; guess I don't read enough lists ..
> 
> I'm a bit surprised too. Shouldn't this mean svn should be in base? If
> not, should csup come OUT of base?
> 

I rethought this. Ignore me.

Bryan



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