Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:47:22 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release Message-ID: <20071126134722.17160bf1@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <474A1C28.8070106@FreeBSD.org> References: <4747A1FB.9000707@FreeBSD.org> <20071124151306.13d7368a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <474A1C28.8070106@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:06:48 -0800 Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:00:59 -0800 > > Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file > >> with the tarball ... > >> since you could start from there and immediately update to the > >> latest version without having to pull down the whole tree again. > > > > c[v]sup doesn't have to pull the whole tree again if it doesn't > > have a checkout file, ... > > I think you dramatically misunderstand what I'm suggesting, and why it > would be beneficial. I have, but I don't feel too bad about it, given that you are referring to a fairly subtle problem that isn't documented in the csup man-page, and was brought up in a sub-thread of an unnamed thread in a different mailing list. For the benefit of people that don't read everything in the stable list. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/51460
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