From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 8 17:27:39 2004 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 17B2D16A4D5 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:27:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5352643D39 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:27:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (dsl-082-083-167-211.arcor-ip.net [82.83.167.211]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A15103E0A for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:27:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i68HRaGY087081 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:27:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@kemoauc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i68HRagA087080 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:27:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20040707031735.GA3540@frontfree.net> <20040707041220.GA35497@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200407062323.02854.kirk@strauser.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C 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, 08 Jul 2004 17:27:39 -0000 Kirk Strauser wrote: > Not as long as you're on a system that supports it. For example, OpenBSD > doesn't have an m3 port for non-x86 platforms (at least not the last time I > checked). Although that doesn't directly relate to FreeBSD, it's does mean > that cvsup probably isn't as widespread as it would be if it had a nice, > portable C implementation. Enter CVSync. Which is a reasonably nice and portable C implementation of a CVS repository synchronization protocol. No checkout mode yet, though. > Would there be any way to get most of cvsup's functionality out of rsync? No. rsync doesn't support scan files. Also, it doesn't use multiple threads, which should affect performance. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de