From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 12 23:40: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zipcode.corp.home.net (zipcode.corp.home.net [24.0.26.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D91837B4C5 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover (dialup-24-0-25-91.corp.home.net [24.0.25.91]) by zipcode.corp.home.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA28844; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:39:54 -0800 (PST) From: "Sameer R. Manek" To: "Jon Paterson" , Subject: RE: keeping stable without cvs type tools. Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:39:54 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jon Paterson > I was wondering if there was a way to keep up to date without using CVS or > one of the other tools. CVSSUP is fine at work for the servers here but > could be v painful down a 56K modem ;-) > > > I can burn data onto CD's at work and take them home, what would I need to > download? I know that there is data available on the ftp > servers, but I am > not sure what is required here.. > > > thanks for any advice, and hope the question does not sound too stupid! > The daily or weekly syncs aren't too painful on a 56k dialup, installing a 4.1-RELEASE box today and cvsup'ing up would be. What you may want to consider doing is at work, cvsup'ing at work, to your ~, then tar it up, burn it to cd. Then at home, rm -rf /usr/src, and untar the source from cd onto /usr/src. Use that as the starting point, and from there on a weekly basis or so, when you are dialed in, cvsup to keep the source current. Naturally makeworld/makekernel as appropriate. Repeat the above steps for the ports collection if desired. Also consider keeping a cvsup-mirror at work that updates like once a day or on demand, to minimize network latency. Sameer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message