From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 23:08:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA11704 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA11698 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA22568; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:08:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:08:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Francisco Reyes cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: What are the two new extra CD roms in 2.2.5? In-Reply-To: <199711240815.DAA09115@federation.addy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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