Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:18:17 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> To: Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore? Message-ID: <3B265CE9.516AFB04@cisco.com> References: <Pine.A41.3.96.1010612000229.84080E-100000@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU> <3B25CAEC.27AF9D30@cisco.com> <a0zobdeq46.fsf@panix6.panix.com>
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Mark Evenson wrote:
>
> W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> writes:
>
> > Cripes people, the CVS repository is available for people to be able to
> > slide back and forth in time as necessary. It only requires a tiny bit
> > of competence. For fair effort on your part you also gain a fair amount
> > of liberty along with a system that has literally made computing history
> > in terms of stability. On top of that, it's free.
>
> Not true: anonymous CVS access to the FreeBSD tree has not been available
> for at least a couple years now. Or did I miss something?
>
Yeah, CVSup's ability to maintain a local repository. With this
methodology, instead of using CVSup to keep /usr/{ports,src} up to date
one keeps their local repo up to date and then uses cvs to checkout
directly from there.
Cheers,
Jerry Hicks
gehicks@cisco.com
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