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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