From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 27 22:29:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C763037B401 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:29:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id eAS6TU594871; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:29:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAS6THp10820; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:29:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:29:17 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make release & CVS? In-Reply-To: <53379.975376044@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I want to start building releases on a home box since it's not doing much > > else when I'm at work. But I have a rather low bandwidth, so I was > > wondering about the CVS checkout of /usr/src that the make release does. > > Well, it's fairly easy to keep a cvs repo up to date even at low > bandwidth (once you've gotten the initial sync) with cvsup. I've been > putting the CVS repository on the mainstream CD releases too, so they > can give you a place to start if your bandwidth is *really* low for > that initial sync. But I don't understand why you need the whole historical cvs repository when you only use it to check out the current source, which you already has online. Or am I missing something too? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message