Re: cvs or cvsup

2007-03-21 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Kernel Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the cvsup client to update my sources. What is the difference between cvs and cvsup when updating sources? CVS is a version control system. You can (ab)use it for source distribution purposes, but it is very inefficient in this role

Re: cvs or cvsup

2007-03-21 Thread Clint M. Sand
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:59:22AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:39:51AM -0700, Kernel Monkey wrote: I've been using the cvsup client to update my sources. What is the difference between cvs and cvsup when updating sources? Is one better than the other

cvs or cvsup

2007-03-21 Thread Kernel Monkey
I've been using the cvsup client to update my sources. What is the difference between cvs and cvsup when updating sources? Is one better than the other? Any advice or experiences given would be appreciated. Thanks. Matt Kingston

Re: cvs or cvsup

2007-03-21 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:39:51AM -0700, Kernel Monkey wrote: I've been using the cvsup client to update my sources. What is the difference between cvs and cvsup when updating sources? Is one better than the other? There is no easy answer. It depends on what you want. + cvsup is much

Re: cvs or cvsup

2007-03-21 Thread Wild Karl-Heinz
In message cvs or cvsup on 21.03.2007, Stefan Sperling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SS On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:39:51AM -0700, Kernel Monkey wrote: I've been using the cvsup client to update my sources. What is the difference between cvs and cvsup when updating sources? Is one better than

Re: cvs or cvsup

2007-03-21 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 21.03.2007 at 10:59:22 +0100, Stefan Sperling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + cvs can do diffs and view logs, and using the nifty cvsdo utility from the cvsutils port you can even diff new files you've added I usually fetch the tree with cvsup these days, and then check out a local

Re: cvs or cvsup

2007-03-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Wild Karl-Heinz wrote: I think a reference to csup in the openbsd base as a clone written in c should be mentioned. Therefor some dependencies to modula3 are obsolete. You must be talking about FreeBSD, not OpenBSD. -- Antoine

Re: cvs or cvsup

2007-03-21 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Stefan Sperling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - cvsup only works on i386 Strictly speaking, cvsup is available on all platforms where the Modula-3 compiler is available. Admittedly on OpenBSD that is only i386. + cvsup is written in modula3 (yes, this is a +, but just because I am familiar