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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:06:55 -0500
"fbsd_user" <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
> This points to the compressed file which contains the complete ports
> tree.
> 
> you mis-understood my question, I do not say I was trying to find
> the single compressed file of the complete ports tree.
> 
> Here is my question again
> When I use cvsup to download the ports config files (by category),
> it does not display the directory path it's using on the server.
> How can I find the directory path cvsup defaults to using?
> The implied meaning here is what is the cvsup program using for an
> directory path?
> How can I find out what it is?

fbsd_user,

I don't think you can discover that information in the general case,
just like you can't discover what directory a web server is serving its
files from.

However, in FreeBSD's case, the configuration files for cvsupd, as it is
run on FreeBSD servers, is available via cvsup, according to:

  http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#serversample

You might be able to grab the FreeBSD project's config files for cvsupd
using that, and extract from those files the information you're
interested in.

-Chris