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Date:      Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:39:33 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        lev@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <50E5EC85.3010006@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <706012647.20130103235654@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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On 03/01/2013 19:56, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Matthew.
> You wrote 3 =FF=ED=E2=E0=F0=FF 2013 =E3., 22:21:16:
>=20
>>> I'm a bit reluctant to installing svn on every system that needs sour=
ce
>>> updates. Are there more lightweight ways?
>=20
> MS> freebsd-update(8)
>  It says (on 9-STABLE):
>=20
>      The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback bi=
nary
>      updates to the FreeBSD base system.  Note that updates are only av=
ailable
>      if they are being built for the FreeBSD release and architecture b=
eing
>      used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates=
 for
>      releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering=
 Team,
>      e.g., FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE and FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, but not FreeBSD=

>      6.3-STABLE or FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT.
>=20
>  So,  as  far  as  I understand, it could not be used to track -STABLE
> branch, as it was possible with csup. Nothing is say about possibility
> to update "src" on stable branch with it. Is it possible and man page
> needs to be updated?
>=20

Ah. Yes, you are right.  You can't track a stable branch with
freebsd-update.  In that case, svn is the way to go.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

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