From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 23: 7:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 23:07:17 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E733137B6B0 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eB6768f18910; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:06:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 08:06:07 +0100 (CET) Sender: mj@isy.liu.se From: Micke Josefsson To: David Talkington Subject: RE: CVSup volume? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Dec-00 David Talkington wrote: > > G'day -- > > I have a fast connection at the office, a miserably slow modem line at > home, and a laptop in between. I have a complete source tree which I > sucked down at work and brought home on the laptop, and want to use it > to maintain a FBSD box at home. I plan to use CVSup to maintain the > tree at home via the modem. This will only be feasible if the weekly > volume of traffic via CVSup is reasonable (a couple of MB or so). I > realize this is unpredictable, but how much traffic is typical, once > my tree is up to date? Not much. I do it every other month or so via modem and while I cannot remember how much it is it is not very much. It is quite feasible by modem as the diffs are small textfiles of miniscule size, there are a lots of them though. > I also have a (probably stupid) question. I don't know how to find > out, in advance of the cvs checkout, what release tags are available > at that moment, if the latest has changed. Greg's text gives > instructions for this, but it apparently presumes that I have access > to Makefile in src. I have that now, having downloaded CURRENT, > but surely there's a way to check this before the download? You needn't bother about release tags. Just stick to RELENG_3 or RELENG_4 depending on if your base system is a FreeBSD-3.x or -4.x. The RELENG_x will get the most up to date sources for your system. (Of course you could get RELENG_4_2_RELEASE - or whatever its called - but that will get you that, and only that, not much point really...) > > Thank you -d > > -- > David Talkington > Community Networking Initiative > dtalk@prairienet.org > 217-244-1962 > > PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message