From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 29 13:20:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2871837B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:20:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from seven.Alameda.net (seven.Alameda.net [64.81.63.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB77943E75 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:20:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf@Alameda.net) Received: by seven.Alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FACE3A23C; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:20:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:20:38 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Hugh Blandford Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup Server Message-ID: <20021029132038.A3942@seven.alameda.net> Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <004001c27f40$fb7860c0$0fdea8c0@island.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004001c27f40$fb7860c0$0fdea8c0@island.net.au>; from hugh@island.net.au on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:47:29PM +1100 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:47:29PM +1100, Hugh Blandford wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an issue I am struggling with. I have setup cvsup on a machine to > download src-all (tag=RELENG_4) and ports-all (tag=.) from one of the local > FreeBSD mirrors to a particular directory (/squid1/ncvs) and that is all > working fine, I get two directories ports and src. I have setup cvsupd and > it appears to be serving up these files when asked. > > The problem is that when I get a number of my other computers to attach to > my server to update their files it just doesn't work. On the client all I > do is change the host from the local FreeBSD mirror to my server and then > the try and update ports-all and it will go through and start deleting all > the ports collection and the same with src-all. > > Does this mean that once you have used one cvsup server you cannot change to > a different one? Is my server setup stuffed? > > If I start with blank directories it will download all the files and then > won't seem to fetch any of the updates once the files on my server have been > changed. It will connect go through all its stuff and download nothing. I > believe I have setup my server correctly but I just can't find any further > info on configuring it to deal with my problem. > > Any suggestions would be really appreciated as I'm grasping at straws. > > Thanks, Hugh Easiest to do is to look at /usr/ports/net/cvsup-mirror. It will setup anything needed to create a local cvsup mirror, including a crontab entry to refresh and starting of the cvsupd. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message