Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:55:38 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Fergus Cameron <fergus@cobbled.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD Message-ID: <420D1BCA.6030203@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050210220523.GD19534@eyore.cobbled.net> 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> <20050210220523.GD19534@eyore.cobbled.net>
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Fergus Cameron wrote: >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.? > I just mirror it into "our_local_CVS_base"/mirrored/freebsd when I check out from it I set my CVSROOT to "our_local_CVS_base"/mirrored/freebsd that way the $FreeBSD headers expand out correctly. of course I never check in to it.. > >
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