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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Ports cvs deprecation warning
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Given the upcoming cvs deprecation in a little over a month, how about 
putting a reminder in /usr/ports/UPDATING now?

Mention that cvs mirrors will be going away and point to the portsnap 
and svn update methods shown in the Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html