From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 31 15:36:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from poontang.schulte.org (poontang.schulte.org [209.134.156.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA5537B402 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:36:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarmap.nospam.schulte.org (tarmap.schulte.org [209.134.156.198]) by poontang.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA841D1645; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:36:09 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020131172757.0328b960@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:36:05 -0600 To: "Bas v.d. Wiel" , From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: CVSUP-question In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:34 PM 1/31/2002 +0100, Bas v.d. Wiel wrote: >Hi All, This might be better suited for -questions, but... >My question is whether it is possible to set up this particular little >server as a cvsup-server for my internal boxes. Absolutely. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/08/30/Big_Scary_Daemons.html is a great little document that can help you through setting this up. [ snip ] >However if I were to bother a public >mirror only once instead of 10 times for each update, it may still make a >difference. You just made some mirror operator happy, I'm sure. I'm reminded how nice 100 megabit access to FreeBSD source is, especially around release time when others write of slow access to ftp servers to pull ISOs. Who needs ISO files?!! (sarcastically speaking, of course). Now if my CDs would just arrive in the mail... >Bas -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message