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 recompile to the last available source. It will
become inconvenient
to do it through the process of installing some ports for that.
Especially if corresponding
ports would require some other ports as dependences.
As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, CVS doesn't cover
csup, a utility in base which allows you to obtain the source
trivially for the scenario you provide above. (Explicity ignoring
cvsup which requires a port).
Does csup allows to checkout a random version from local cvs mirror?
So better to say csup(cvsup) does not cover cvs.
Not quite sure what you are referring to by "random version". But csup
certainly allows you to obtain the source as described in your scenario
above ("last available source", even source at a particular point in time).
Also, when I said CVS doesn't cover csup, I meant any removal of CVS
from base would still leave csup available for obtaining source.
Regards,
Jase.
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