Subject: Re: CVS_RSH to ssh
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/17/2003 11:32:18
Is setting the environment variable that difficult for folks? 

It's just one more thing to possibly have conflict on future imports/updates
and it's not gaining much.

James


>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, David Laight wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:16:53PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
>> > 	do people object much if i apply the following patch, to make
>> > 	ssh(1) the default way for cvs to contact remote host?
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1) why?
>
>	Most people tend to use cvs over ssh nowdays - particularly
>	anyone dealing with the NetBSD source tree (pkgsrc included).
>
>> 2) what about systems that don't have ssh installed?
>
>	These would tend to be infrequent in modern NetBSD systems :)
>
>
>	We would need to document the change loudly, but I would very
>	much like to see it made.
>
>-- 
>		David/absolute          -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
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