From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 27 11:17:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA26292 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 27 May 1997 11:17:46 -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 LAA26285 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 11:17:44 -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 LAA03220 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 11:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by korky.fe.up.pt; id AA18079; Tue, 27 May 1997 18:55:00 GMT Received: from localhost by tom.fe.up.pt; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/16Oct95-1216PM) id AA13240; Tue, 27 May 1997 18:56:27 GMT Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 18:56:26 +0000 (GMT) To: John Polstra Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CVS Tree In-Reply-To: <199705271740.KAA05511@austin.polstra.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 May 1997, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > My goal is to use CVSup and run it every 2 days to keep my sources > > current and extract a copy of FreeBSD-stable every week and then > > do a make world :-). Any comments on how to do this are welcome! > > If you are going to use CVSup anyway, then don't bother getting the > initial tree via FTP. Just get it using CVSup -- it is faster than > FTP. > > In other words, CVSup can _create_ your tree as well as update it. I know it can but I won't CVSup a 50MB tree over a 33.6K line. I wan't to usea T1 line to which I have access and FTP the tree from there. Than I will use a ZIP drive to transfer it to my home box and run CVSup. Can this be done? > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth > Thanks for your reply. Jorge