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List:       openbsd-ports
Subject:    Re: NEW: fastest_cvsup
From:       David Coppa <dcoppa () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-12-26 11:57:17
Message-ID: CABM=MFL3fiGWmtca+T_2bhNfxK_-xtxQ1UJd8Xs6vAaAEC-Y0w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Christian Weisgerber
<naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Julien Dhaille <julien@dhaille.com> wrote:
>
>> This is port coming from FreeBSD, people should know it.
>> Tested on amd64. There is many references to FreeBSD within,
>> so, tell me if a patch is needed.
>
> I don't see the point of this port.  There isn't even a list of
> OpenBSD CVSup servers anymore.
>
> CVSup was never that popular for OpenBSD to begin with and now it's
> effectively dead.  In fact, FreeBSD, which has used CVSup extensively
> in the past, is in the process of phasing out its CVSup infrastructure.
> Just a few hours ago I was again pondering the question when I
> should remove the cvsup and csup ports.  lang/ezm3 and thus net/cvsup
> will not survive the next major ABI change (likely time_t sometime
> in the 5.3->5.4 timeframe).  net/csup is buggy and unlikely to ever
> get fixed now that FreeBSD is abandoning it.
>
> CVSup is unused for OpenBSD, and by the time 5.3 will be released
> you won't even be able to use it to get FreeBSD, so why are we still
> keeping it around?

I agree.

ciao,
David

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