From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 7 15:16:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037E016A402 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B15013C480 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:16:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HaCe9-0006Z3-T4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:16:10 +0200 Received: from nv-65-160-210-65.dhcp.embarqhsd.net ([65.160.210.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:16:09 +0200 Received: from jvk-list by nv-65-160-210-65.dhcp.embarqhsd.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:16:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Joe Kraft Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:57:45 -0400 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <460D2569.4020309@thekrafts.org> References: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nv-65-160-210-65.dhcp.embarqhsd.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Sender: news Cc: frzburn@gmail.com Subject: Re: Fetching sources from Windows? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:16:24 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0500, frzburn wrote: > >> Hi! >> I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is >> possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). >> What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook ( >> http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html), >> even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to diff with my >> current source... > > Basically, that is what I do. I only have a regular old phone modem at home. > I take my home machine in to the office where I have a reliable 100 Mb/s > and do my installs there. The only problem is fixing up IPs and host > names. > > If I ever get rich and get a laptop with significant disk, I can just > carry that and pull everything down to it and take it home to work > on the desktop machine - or I could get one of those nice big USB drives > and download everything to that. > > ////jerry > I have a computer that's not connected to the internet that I keep up to date using CTM. I've subscribed to one of the ctm-XXX mail list with my work address and I just save the messages to a relatively small USB memory stick from the windows machine. Once I have the updates on there I bring the stick home and run ctm-rmail and it updates my source tree. It would have been even easier if I was able to get ftp access to get the CTM updates directly without resorting to using e-mail for the transfer. Setting it up is discussed in the handbook, I've only been doing it for a couple of weeks, but it seems to work for me. Joe.