Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:57:55 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: RacerX@makeworld.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, 'Efren Bravo' <efrenba@yahoo.es> Subject: Re: CVSup doubts Message-ID: <4388A223.3040107@highperformance.net> In-Reply-To: <43889489.4010302@makeworld.com> References: <003001c5f2a4$773c0e30$59ab3a40@sleuth> <43889489.4010302@makeworld.com>
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Chris wrote: > I hate users looking for the shortcuts. Funny. I didn't see that at all in the original email. What I saw was a genuine misunderstanding. He was asking about using CVSUP to track ports on a one by one basis. What he didn't understand is that a person really wants to CVSUP the whole ports tree. It's a fair misunderstanding if one starts with an FTP-ish RPM-ish mindset. John Chen's answer was appropriate. To Efren I add the following. You may also want to read up on 'refuse' files as documented in the cvsup(1) man page. I don't recommend using them though. Later, Jason
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