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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:01:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Dennis Glatting <freebsd@pki2.com>, re <re@freebsd.org>, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208230900270.92471@btw.pki2.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208231631310.35281@mail.fig.ol.no>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Trond Endrest?l wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:25-0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 09:47 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>>>> > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS.  So
>>>> > csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
>>>> > If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1.
>>>>
>>>> Assuming the stupid question is the one you didn't ask, just to clarify:
>>>> does this mean that c*sup won't work with these RCs in particular, or
>>>> that CVS is dead and SVN becomes mandatory from 9.1-RELEASE?
>>>>
>>>> cheers, Ian
>>>>
>>>
>>> The latter.  If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates
>>> of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for
>>> release branches (releng/*) from now on.  Updates of the CVS repository
>>> will continue for the existing stable/* and head for now.  I don't think
>>> anything has been decided on when that will stop.
>>>
>>
>> Looking in the handbook ([1]) I do not see the mechanics of how to set
>> up a mirror, of which I have three CVS mirrors in different
>> infrastructures. Is there a web page somewhere on how to set up,
>> synchronize, maintain, and use a local mirror?
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html
>
> How about this one?
>
> http://motoyuki.bsdclub.org/BSD/cvsup.html
>

I have CVS mirrors. The topic is SVN.




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