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Date:      24 Dec 1998 11:29:23 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: keeping updated with FreeBSD (some help please)
Message-ID:  <xzppv99zvcs.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:56:05 %2B1030"
References:  <3680F56B.128CBDDF@netshell.vicosa.com.br> <xzpaf0ex3we.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19981224115605.A12346@freebie.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes:
> On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 16:40:49 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > I'd use:
> >
> > *default host=cvsup.internat.FreeBSD.org
> 
> Do you?  I don't believe this is a good idea.

No, I have my own cvsup mirror which is updated hourly from freefall
and cvsup.internat. But he had this in his supfile, so I kept it...

(for those of you in Norway or Scandinavia, you might want to give
freebsd.ping.uio.no a shot and see if it's faster than what you
already use; it carries the crypto stuff too)

> > *default base=/usr prefix=/usr
> 
> I don't think it's a good idea to put the cvs housekeeping files in
> /usr.  That's one of the things I pointed out in his last version, and
> I think that /usr/local/etc/cvsup makes more sense.

Then you should modify /usr/share/examples/cvsup/* to reflect this.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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