Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:08:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What are the two new extra CD roms in 2.2.5? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128230759.22417W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711240815.DAA09115@federation.addy.com>
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Just got 2.2.5. Looked at CDrom 3 and 4, but I can't understand what > they are for. 3 says CVSup. I thought "sup files" were updates. Why > would one want to get them from CDrom when the very latest is available > online? It says CVS. CVS is the main source tree system used to store the various versions of the FreeBSD source. Basically, you can use that disk to check out any version of FreeBSD back to 2.0-RELEASE. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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