>cvsup is not written in C. ;) net/csup is a cvsup client written in C.
2008/11/13, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 01:28:57 Nov 13, Ansen Lloyd wrote: >> 1. What are the main differences between cvs and cvsup when updating >> sources >> to stable? >> > > cvs is the revision control technology. You can use cvs to check out the > main OpenBSD repository to your local machine by which you only get the > files pertaining to the revision you ask. > > Whereas cvsup and cvsync are tools that fetch the entire cvs > repository to your local machine. > > So you have to necessary run a cvs checkout on your local repository to > obtain the sources. > >> 2. I'm just the typical home user of obsd, so which should I use, cvs or >> cvsup? >> > > I use cvsync. cvsup is not written in C. ;) > > You can use cvs if you have copious bandwidth. If you are like me you > have to either use cvsup or cvsync. > > >> 3. As of Nov 13th of 2008 why do only 4 of the 17 cvsup servers have the >> xenocara repository? >> ( according to this list: http://www.openbsd.org/cvsup.html ) >> > > Some mirrors may be out of date. > > -Girish
