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Re: Why not to use CVS

On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Richard Jones wrote:

> Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi> wrote:
> > Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > > 
> > > Remember a while back there was someone who wanted buzz but it was no
> > > longer on the ftp site?  I'm imagining a situation where we are up to
> > > Debian 5.0 and someone needs a copy of 3.4.
> > 
> > I suppose that keeping a CD online on a well connected ftp site would be
> > simpler and cheaper, and make users happier too.
> > Speed is not important in this case.
> > 
> 
> hmm..if we are at 5.0 and someone needs 3.4 then you could put a CD up for 
> sure, but what if someone else needs 3.5? and someone else 4.5 and someone 
> else <gasp> 1.2!.  I don't think the CD idea scales well ;)
> 
> [stuff about single file]
> > 
> > > If it was saved in CVS I'd never have to worry about it.
> > 
> > What you pointed out are user's issues: how could an ftp user (maybe
> > anonymous) extract an older version from the CVS tree?
> > 
> 
> If you had a CVS tree you wouldn't use ftp, you would use a CVS checkout 
> specifying the date required. If you didn't have a source tree on your system 
> or the part of the source tree for the package then you could still get the 
> binary package.

No, you wouldn't even want to use cvs checkout. 

cvsup is incomparably faster und produces much less traffic.

Mike

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