From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 8:19:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3FE150C5 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11grKV-000HGi-00; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:19:07 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA98421; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:19:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:19:07 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading/CVSUPping with bad ISP connection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Only 10 minutes or so? I was expecting a lot longer than that. That's good to know. I'll have to read the man pages about the cvsup files. Then i'll give it a go. I doubt 3.2->3.3 should be that big or a deal. -jm On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > >> Is there a way to do this in stages? So that each time i lose my >> connection i can pick up where i left off? > >Jeez, how often do you loose your connection? A CVSup update >shouldn't take more than 10 minutes or so over 28.8 (last i remeber). > >Of you mean resuming a checkout, CVSup seems to pick up where it >left off mighty quick. > >However, you can mess with your supfile and break up the larger >collections into smaller ones. > >try breaking src-all into src-sys, src-lib, etc... > >-Alfred > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message