Re: csup, cvsup (Re: [HEADS UP] packages not supporting destdir)

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:02:22AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> >     Date:        Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:00:28 +0400
> >     From:        Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>
> >     Message-ID:  <87pqbrru2r.fsf_-_%inbox.ru@localhost>
> >
> >   | Does it have any advantages over rsync?
> >
> > We don't have cvsup because it requires a modula 3 compiler, and as has
> > been mentioned, csup still seems to have problems (cvsup just works for
> > me as long as I can keep locating a suitable server to pull from - since
> > they're not project maintained, from time to time one just vanishes).
> > Given that, and how network & system resource friendly it is, I prefer
> > to just keep using it.
>
> What are the csup problems? I'm curious because life in FreeBSD-land seems
> to revolve around using csup for updating cvs trees.

Hangs. Looks like pthread problems. Did you look at the pr?

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