From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 21:02:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA28531 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA28523 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA16586; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:02:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Elton Chiu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup question In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970909210910.002d60b0@istar.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Elton Chiu wrote: > I'm wondering if I cvsup the whole cvs repository and install cvsupd to one > of my FreeBSD server here, can I cvsup Current branch of the source tree on > the same machine and cvsup Stable on other FreeBSD workstations on the local > network? If I could do that, then I wouldn't need to dial up twice to cvsup > the source and wasting resources and bandwidth. Couldn't see why not, if you can get cvsupd working. > I read the man page for cvsupd and it mentioned about configuration files. > Where can I find a sample of the configuration files to start with? Is it > possible to get a copy from a working cvsup server? I believe there is a way of grabbing the configuration directories from the servers. I forgot the collection name unfortunately -- it's something like ``distrib'' but I'm not sure. You'll have to check with one of the cvsup server maintainers. > Are there any documents on the theory and workings of "make world", "make > release" and staying Stable/Current, etc. in addition to the Handbook and > the html tutorial. I am looking for information that would enable me to > understand and solve problems during the make world/release. You should subscribe to and bother the `freebsd-current' mailing list. That will tell you if there known problems with the build and they can help you with build problems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo