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From: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
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cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: anoncvs.FreeBSD.org gone?
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Jon Noack wrote:
> On 05/25/04 03:17, Colin Percival wrote:
> >At 09:07 25/05/2004, Jon Noack wrote:
> >>For the last couple days I have been unable to resolve
> >>anoncvs.FreeBSD.org.  It appears to have disappeared even from the
> >>FreeBSD DNS servers:
> >
> >I believe that anoncvs was recently taken offline due to security 
> >concerns.
> 
> OK.
> 
> >>The handbook still mentions anoncvs.FreeBSD.org -- what is the best
> >>anonymous CVS server for someone in the US?
> >
> >This may be a silly question, but why do you need anoncvs?
> 
> Well, I've made various local modifications to the source tree that are 
> easy to keep around with anoncvs.  For example, I got mad at the output 
> of file(1) for recent versions of FreeBSD and created a patch for it 
> (see below for more info).  I've written a script to reapply the patch 
> after every CVSup, but this script is only workable if you have a 
> limited number of patches.  After a while (adding more patches) I got 
> fed up and started using anoncvs instead and let CVS do the merging. 
> Can you recommend a better way of doing this?  I wouldn't it put it past 
> myself to miss the obvious here...

You should simply use CVSup to get the CVS repository (just remove the
tag=foo setting in your supfile) and then checkout a local CVS tree
from this repo.  This is how I (and AFAIK, many developers) do to
maintain patches against FreeBSD.  It's very convenient.

Cheers,
Maxime