Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:42:35 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CVS Question Message-ID: <p0602046dbc2a2f438dd7@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040113225632.GA80120@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net> References: <20040112132544.D54803@pooker.samsco.home> <20040113225632.GA80120@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net>
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At 2:56 PM -0800 1/13/04, John Kennedy wrote:
> With 5.x stabilizing, I'm looking at having multiple FreeBSD
>trees in play again and I'm trying to optimize my bandwidth.
>
> Rather than hit the FreeBSD servers with multiple machines
>cvsuping 4.x and 5.x, I'm almost finished a scheme to cvsup
>the CVS sources and then do a local CVS checkout with the
>appropriate branch of FreeBSD.
Sad to say, I suspect you did a lot of extra work that you could
have avoided.
What I did was install the freebsd port named 'cvsup-mirror' on
one of my freebsd machines. That port turns my machine into a
cvsup-server machine. I customized it a bit, so I do not
mirror things like FreeBSD-www FreeBSD-gnats and FreeBSD-mail.
Then, for all my other freebsd machines, I just use the standard
cvsup control files, except that I point them at my machine
instead of a standard cvsup server.
> Right now, this seems like a total win because I have a
>narrow pipe out to the big internet and fat pipe locally.
It depends on what you mean by "a local CVS checkout". On the
machines which are doing a CVS checkout, how are they getting
to your local copy of the CVS repository? If that repository
is NFS-mounted, then you are probably in good shape. If your
machines are doing a CVS checkout over RSH or SSH, then your
server may be doing a LOT more work than you realize.
>...the only thing that seems to be wrong is the version IDs
>when the files get checkout out of RCS/CVS ("$FreeBSD$"). I'm
>assuming that is because FreeBSD has hacked up a copy of RCS
>and changed some of the names.
No, it's that the FreeBSD repository does some fairly clever
things with various files that it has in CVSROOT. I am not
sure why you would not have those same files.
But really, you'd probably be better off investigating the
cvsup-mirror port. It did not take me too long to setup,
and it has worked very well for me.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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