> On 17/04/21 6:30 pm, Lloyd Parkes wrote: > > I am using the Mercurial repository at https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src for > > fetching the source code because it's nice and quick
> So I'm now downloading the source code through CVS instead of Mercurial > because nobody else seems to be having the same problems that I'm having > building with GCC 10. > > I've been running CVS for more than two hours now, and it has terminated with > a broken connection 10 (make that 11) times so far. I'm rerunning with "cvs > update", so I am making progress. Even so, CVS has only just got to paths > starting with the letter "d". > As someone who has used CVS for almost 30 years now, I'm happy to say that CVS > just needs to be retired. Have a flag day, check that the content in the HEADs > all match up and then make CVS read-only. I know many of us are old and > grumpy, but that model T isn't our every day drive any more. > > Cheers, > Lloyd > p.s. The code in Mercurial seems to match what I can browse on the FTP site, > so I really am at a loss as to why I can't build, so I am checking everything. I too would like to see CVS retired. There is a long wait for cvs update to start, and longer wait to return to command prompt after the update download is finished. Svn has lesser such delays; git is much faster. FreeBSD switched doc and src trees from svn to git, and more recently switched the ports tree to git. Tom