From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 5 18:39:28 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 A11EA16A401 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:39:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0FA13C4B3 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so2075828nfc for ; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:39:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=meEUlpijyQnr1OhW+IneHTM/B59eR0c48Lir64/KIWlTrVJC1hvJb2UujLui3V/q3WsnJA+4YJFL9hiaaAEVcAY1x9LQLw0iLjE73fJ/w9bz8/vCFEBgGSesebAXguyTApDxpS9aVIszck/duJ7SFxylRQ/P9OhJYxP0m8zWQd4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tGGm+rVcohUcQZBhauAU8HohBxRBX3iA5qGtnmJhcemF505h7GFbtkdGNyUT5A/hdaN48xrHqYf1RuRn0Ef5Y85DrjPG58tEMOOy+AIK3ExBzpb1g4q6Te4TgLV5lgBq3wXc3wlglUG6AE+wA1aI1r/xbEeZDf1BeI9J8dlSFjo= Received: by 10.82.111.8 with SMTP id j8mr5578803buc.1173119965824; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:39:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.1 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:39:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:39:25 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: frzburn In-Reply-To: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:39:28 -0000 On 05/03/07, 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... Assuming you have fairly recent sources (6.2 or so), csup, with compress in your supfile (or the -z flag), will be faster than downloading and transferring*, even with a 28.8 modem**. * I know of no pre-packaged STABLE source archives, short of downloading a snapshot .iso (which I am not certain even exists for STABLE). ** Might not actually be true. -- --