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Date:      Sun, 27 Oct 1996 16:36:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>, khan@vnet.net, scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: -current failed
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.961027163439.1713F-100000@maryann.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610272133.NAA07741@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Steven G. Kargl wrote:

> According to Veggy Vinny:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > 
> > > too.  Why can't sup be put to bed permanently, now that we know for sure
> > > that cvsup works dandy?
> > 
> > 	Hmmm, is cvsup the same way?  I thought you had to grab the entire
> > source tree each time or something...
> > 
> 
> Sup works just fine.  The last, and only, time I looked into cvsup,
> I needed to install a >50Mbyte modula-3 port.  This is not a good
> use of disk space for those with limited resources and limited $$$.

Steve, that's not true.  JDP put statically compiled copies of cvsup in
incoming on ftp.freebsd.org.  And sup doesn't work just like cvsup, sup
will ignore problems that cvsup will fix.


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