On 2013-Jan-23 15:40:50 +0100, Oliver Brandmueller <o...@e-gitt.net> wrote: >in ancient times there was cvsup. cvsup was a PITA if you wanted (or >needed) to install it via ports, the only reasonable way was to use >pkg_add for that if you didn't want to pollute your system with >otherwise unneeded software.
There was also ctm(1). ctm is small, BSD-licensed and has been part of FreeBSD forever (almost). Thanks to stephen@, ctm deltas for various src trees, as well as the entire SVN repo are still available. c[v]sup can do things than aren't possible with ctm but I would expect that most people who currently use c[v]sup could readily migrate to using ctm. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ctm.html for details. Note that mirroring the actual SVN repo via ctm requires some patches. There is a README and patches in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/svn-cur/ -- Peter Jeremy
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