Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:57:45 -0400 From: Joe Kraft <jvk-list@thekrafts.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: frzburn@gmail.com Subject: Re: Fetching sources from Windows? Message-ID: <460D2569.4020309@thekrafts.org> In-Reply-To: <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0500, frzburn wrote: > >> Hi! >> I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is >> possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). >> What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook ( >> http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html), >> even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to diff with my >> current source... > > Basically, that is what I do. I only have a regular old phone modem at home. > I take my home machine in to the office where I have a reliable 100 Mb/s > and do my installs there. The only problem is fixing up IPs and host > names. > > If I ever get rich and get a laptop with significant disk, I can just > carry that and pull everything down to it and take it home to work > on the desktop machine - or I could get one of those nice big USB drives > and download everything to that. > > ////jerry > I have a computer that's not connected to the internet that I keep up to date using CTM. I've subscribed to one of the ctm-XXX mail list with my work address and I just save the messages to a relatively small USB memory stick from the windows machine. Once I have the updates on there I bring the stick home and run ctm-rmail and it updates my source tree. It would have been even easier if I was able to get ftp access to get the CTM updates directly without resorting to using e-mail for the transfer. Setting it up is discussed in the handbook, I've only been doing it for a couple of weeks, but it seems to work for me. Joe.
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