On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Ken Menzel wrote:
On 8/23/2012 9:47 AM, 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.
I missed this announcement as well.
Should we all use the primary URL or is there a list of mirrors?
Is anyone going to be updating the Handbook to reflect this?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html
However I can see this does not even reflect the more recent use of csup
instead of cvsup.
I found two good primers:
http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#SUBVERSION-PRIMER
The second primer in the committer handbook seems to indicate that it is
difficult to run an SVN mirror. This appears to me to be the biggest
drawback. I have been using CVS and perforce for years, but subversion
is new to me.
Thanks.
I have several cases where I cannot have machines going to the Internet to
update for various reasons, including WAN loading and policies, but I can
have them hit local mirrors. I have three sites:
#1, Static with less than ten servers. Strong maintenance policies.
#2, Mostly static with twenty servers, virtual instances,
laptops, and sticks. Loose maintenance policies
#3, Largely dynamic but three servers and instances are static.
Regulated environment with associated maintenance policies.
If CVS is fading then I need to move my CVS mirrors to SVN mirrors.
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