FreeBSD.org begins switch to Subversion

The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion. At this point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the base system in the Subversion repository. There is a replication system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on a continuous basis.

People who are using our extensive CVS based distribution network (including anoncvs, CVSup, csup, cvsweb, ftp) will not be interrupted by our work-in-progress. You do not need to change anything if you do not wish to.

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FreeBSD CVS pserver

Setting up cvs on FreeBSD is very simple and only takes a few minutes. CVS is installed by default on FreeBSD so all you need to really do is initialize the repository and set up the pserver listener. I will go through the simple steps to set up a cvs pserver on FreeBSD.

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Setting Own CVS Repository

In this guide I'd like to present a short info on setting own CVS repository. It has been written with an assumption that the repository will be accessed locally and through the SSH connection. Using ssh might require setting $CVS_RSH=ssh environment variable on client system.