Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:46:14 +0100 From: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org> To: sabine225@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CVSup is overkill for me Message-ID: <20011013184613.A83929@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <D004E282-BF7E-11D5-B40C-0050E4050F42@home.com>; from sabine225@home.com on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 07:05:45PM -0700 References: <010b01c15381$acd2d770$0200000a@paeps.cx> <D004E282-BF7E-11D5-B40C-0050E4050F42@home.com>
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 07:05:45PM -0700, sabine225@home.com wrote: > It's horrendous. So is a basic inability to RTFM... > I don't want CURRENT I want STABLE, STABLE sounds better. But all the > docs say no problem just say If you want -STABLE because "it sounds better", you don't want -STABLE. In fact, you probably don't want to upgrade at all and this entire thread is pointless... > Tell me is it, "RELENG_4" ? For 4.4-STABLE, yes. > AND docs say if you make any kind of a typo in this > tag=make_a_wild_guess it will delete all the files that don't match your > system. Nice. And if you do "rm -rf /" you will remove all of the files on your system (without the schg attribute etc), even if you didn't mean to. Welcome to the wonderful world of UNIX, where stupid people can do stupid things with ease... > Yea, it's probably not that tough, it just that the documentation blows. And your patches to improve it can be downloaded from where? > YOU tell me this wasn't written by mutants: I'll tell you that CVSup wasn't written by "mutants". It was written by people who know infinitely more about the subject than you do. Perhaps the documentation leaves something to be desired (which is why I assume your patches against it will be forthcoming), but that's no reflection on the quality of the software. -- George C A Reid Tel: (08701) 200870 Ext. 26654 Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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