From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 22:18:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F9A16A4CF for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:18:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ni-mail3.dna.utvinternet.net (ni-mail3.dna.utvinternet.net [194.46.8.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7938D43D5E for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:18:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fergus@cobbled.net) Received: from eyore.cobbled.net (unverified [195.218.107.131]) by ni-mail3.dna.utvinternet.net ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:04:44 +0000 Received: from eyore.public.cobbled.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eyore.cobbled.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1AM5bYC021750; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:05:37 GMT (envelope-from fergus@eyore.public.cobbled.net) Received: (from fergus@localhost)j1AM5NeR021749; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:05:23 GMT (envelope-from fergus) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:05:23 +0000 From: Fergus Cameron To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050210220523.GD19534@eyore.cobbled.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Chuck Swiger References: <200502061104.37960.reso3w83@verizon.net> <68a08ad2f9cff22dfa603b47311158cd@beforever.com> <20050209145329.GA27679@wirehub.nl> <20050209.082507.35867907.imp@bsdimp.com> <420AF652.7040308@mac.com> <20050210060344.GA54763@dan.emsphone.com> <420AFEC2.2080403@mac.com> <20050210143336.GE19631@hex.databits.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050210143336.GE19631@hex.databits.net> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:10:29 +0000 Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:18:08 -0000 On 10.02-08:33, Will Andrews wrote: [ ... ] > Only in recent times have there been more than one or two anoncvs > mirrors for FreeBSD. Quite frankly, anoncvs sucks the life out > of the machines it's on. I encourage people to use cvsup to grab > the repository and do cvs operations locally. Also, there's > ports/net/cvsup-mirror which makes it a trivial task.. and it's > been around for a long time. i'm pulling down a copy now via cvsup (just removed the tag line so that part seems pretty simple) what i need some pointers on is how to integrate this into my cvs server (which is running). it all seems OK to just put the cvsup directly into the local cvs archive as a seperate directory but since i'm unfamiliar with the details of CVSROOT i'm worried that this 'dump' will fail or worse make a mess of the rest of the repository. can someone confirm for me that simply adding a 'freebsd' directory and running 'cvsup' into that directory will create a working repo.? -- : fergus cameron : -cameron------------ : : ^^^^^^@cameron-consulting.ie : ---------consulting- :