From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 27 13:31:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD3BA16A4DE for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:31:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from ns2.twenty4help.se (ns2.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C070E43DE5 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:28:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by ns2.twenty4help.se (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9RDVOP5022347; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:31:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <4542094E.8050809@401.cx> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:27:42 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Greenwood References: <20061027000754.86183.qmail@web58305.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <200610262236.46586.lane@joeandlane.com> <4541F8AC.1030502@401.cx> <3ee9ca710610270541m153e68d2i427a106afabcc57e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3ee9ca710610270541m153e68d2i427a106afabcc57e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lane , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Rik Davis Subject: Re: Ports collection issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:31:30 -0000 Andy Greenwood wrote: > Is it possible to use csup with my existing cvsup files? I skimmed the > man page and it looks very similar. Is there any advantage to using > cvsup over csup? I use the same files for csup as I used for cvsup. You should not have to change anything except removing the 'v' after the 'c' in 'cvsup' on the command-line. :) Csup is basically cvsup rewritten in C instead of Modula-3. While cvsup is an excellent program that certainly makes exactly what it was designed to do, it unfortunately has some dependencies that are not common on most installations. I do not know of any advantages that cvsup might have over csup, more then the fact that it is a thoroughly tested program that has performed well for several years, while csup is a relatively new program. AFAIK there has not been any reports of problem with csup though, so I would say its safe to use. -- R