Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Roman Kurakin
Doug Barton wrote: [...] The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the majority view seems to lean heavily towards If I use it, it must be the

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread sthaug
The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the majority view seems to lean heavily towards If I use it, it must be the default and/or

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Roman Kurakin
Jase Thew wrote: On 03/12/2011 09:21, Roman Kurakin wrote: Doug Barton wrote: [...] The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the majority

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Max Khon
Rik, On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Roman Kurakin r...@inse.ru wrote: The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the majority view seems

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Max Khon
Hello! On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I use CVS (or rather csup) to keep the base system up to date. I would be perfectly okay with using a different utility - however, I would strongly prefer that this utility was included in the base system. CVS != csup. I

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Max Khon f...@samodelkin.net wrote: As soon as ports/ (and doc/) are moved to SVN I do not see any compelling reasons for keeping CVS in the base system. Those who still use it for development can install ports/devel/opencvs Rather ports/devel/cvs-devel. Maybe we still need a regular cvs

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Sean M. Collins
On 12/2/11 4:27 AM, Max Khon wrote: In my opinion it is just another piece of bitrot that resides in the base system for no real reasons. I agree, especially since all the development work is being done on SVN and then is exported back to CVS, if I am not mistaken[1]. We've done the hard part,

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Max Khon wrote: Hello! On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I use CVS (or rather csup) to keep the base system up to date. I would be perfectly okay with using a different utility - however, I would strongly prefer that this utility was included in

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Max Khon f...@samodelkin.net wrote: Hello! I know that it is too early to speak about this, but I would like the dust in the mailing lists to settle down before real actions can be taken. As soon as ports/ (and doc/) are moved to SVN I do not see any

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Roman Kurakin
Max Khon wrote: Rik, On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Roman Kurakin r...@inse.ru wrote: The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Roman Kurakin r...@inse.ru wrote: Doug Barton wrote: [...] The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Daniel; --- On Sat, 12/3/11, Daniel Eischen deisc...@freebsd.org wrote: ... I would love to mirror the SVN repo in the same way and have an 'svn' in base, or at least something that could replace CVS in the above scenario. I have to say I am surprised by all the people that still use

Third party apps in base [was CVS removal...]

2011-12-03 Thread grarpamp
Hi. I have many dependencies on CVS that I 'need' 'out of the box'. Yet at the same time, I would not mind at all if it went to ports. In fact, and from a general position regarding all third party apps, I encourage it. Mostly because they are not authored or maintained by FreeBSD. Yet they are

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Michiel Boland
On 12/03/2011 17:29, Sean M. Collins wrote: [...] all the development work is being done on SVN and then is exported back to CVS, if I am not mistaken[1]. [...] Aren't ports still updated with CVS? Cheers Michiel ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Michiel Boland mich...@boland.org wrote: On 12/03/2011 17:29, Sean M. Collins wrote: [...] all the development work is being done on SVN and then is exported back to CVS, if I am not mistaken[1]. [...] Aren't ports still updated with CVS? Just to back

Sil3124 + Sil4726 PortMultipier and FreeBSD9

2011-12-03 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
hail, I've heard great things about sil3124 and FreeBSD 8+ (saw mav@ talking in lists and forum). But I'm planning a home server, I already have an Atom board from Intel (old Atom 330), Soekris 6501-70 and Sil3124 PCI. I saw that both ICH7 and NM10 can't deal with port multipliers, so my focus

Re: Sil3124 + Sil4726 PortMultipier and FreeBSD9

2011-12-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info wrote: hail, I've heard great things about sil3124 and FreeBSD 8+ (saw mav@ talking in lists and forum). But I'm planning a home server, I already have an Atom board from Intel (old Atom 330), Soekris 6501-70 and

Re: Sil3124 + Sil4726 PortMultipier and FreeBSD9

2011-12-03 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Sat, December 3, 2011 21:06, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info wrote: hail, I've heard great things about sil3124 and FreeBSD 8+ (saw mav@ talking in lists and forum). But I'm planning a home server, I already have an Atom

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/3/2011 5:03 AM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the majority view seems to lean heavily towards

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/3/2011 1:21 AM, Roman Kurakin wrote: Doug Barton wrote: [...] The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the majority view seems to

Re: Sil3124 + Sil4726 PortMultipier and FreeBSD9

2011-12-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
Why not just run FreeNAS? Adrian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
The problem I have with all of this is pretty simple. With the CVS in base, it's treated like the (mostly) rest of the system in a stable release - ie, people don't simply keep updating it to the latest and greatest without some testing. If there are any critical bugs or security flaws, they're

Re: Sil3124 + Sil4726 PortMultipier and FreeBSD9

2011-12-03 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Sun, December 4, 2011 00:32, Adrian Chadd wrote: Why not just run FreeNAS? thanks for the tip on FreeNAS, as others said too. will it run some other services, as http server for some stuff (wiki for example), edonkey and torrent clients, and some other stuff ? (I will visit the FreeNAS

Re: Sil3124 + Sil4726 PortMultipier and FreeBSD9

2011-12-03 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Sun, December 4, 2011 00:46, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Sun, December 4, 2011 00:32, Adrian Chadd wrote: Why not just run FreeNAS? thanks for the tip on FreeNAS, as others said too. will it run some other services, as http server for some stuff (wiki for example), edonkey and torrent

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: The problem I have with all of this is pretty simple. With the CVS in base, it's treated like the (mostly) rest of the system in a stable release - ie, people don't simply keep updating it to the latest and greatest

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 4 December 2011 11:59, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: Supplying only a console-mode FreeBSD as a release is making FreeBSD unusable for peoples who they are not computing experts . And the PCBSD crowd have stepped up to fill this gap. So we're free to concentrate on

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Jase Thew
On 03/12/2011 14:48, Roman Kurakin wrote: Jase Thew wrote: On 03/12/2011 09:21, Roman Kurakin wrote: [SNIP] You are right in general, except one small factor. We are talking about bootstrap. CVS is used by many as the one of the ways to get the sources to the freshly installed system to

Re: Sil3124 + Sil4726 PortMultipier and FreeBSD9

2011-12-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info wrote: On Sun, December 4, 2011 00:46, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Sun, December 4, 2011 00:32, Adrian Chadd wrote: Why not just run FreeNAS? thanks for the tip on FreeNAS, as others said too. will it run some other