From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 27 11:15:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA26045 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 May 1997 11:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA26036 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 11:15:02 -0700 (PDT) From: ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt Received: from korky.fe.up.pt (korky.fe.up.pt [192.82.214.50]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA02959 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 11:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by korky.fe.up.pt; id AA17836; Tue, 27 May 1997 18:59:27 GMT Received: from localhost by tom.fe.up.pt; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/16Oct95-1216PM) id AA05232; Tue, 27 May 1997 19:00:55 GMT Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 19:00:55 +0000 (GMT) To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD CVS Tree In-Reply-To: <19970527193602.UK60863@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 May 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt wrote: > > > I was disapointed when I found that the 2.2.1 CD hadn't the CVS tree > > in it. :-( > > IMHO, it's only on the snapshot CDs, since they are more targeted to > developers than ``end-users''. > > > My question now is: Can I ftp the complete tree from a FreeBSD mirror > > site as in ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-CVS? > > Use one of the `full' CTM deltas as the starting base. Pick the > latest you can find that has an `A' in the name. I once started with > cvs-cur.0380A.gz. :-) > ^^^^^^^ ^ <== that's what you should watch out for But... what is .../FreeBSD-CVS/ for? Can't I use it for a starting base to CVSup? > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > Thanks for your answer. Jorge