Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:37:29 -0500 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: kwc@world.std.com Subject: Re: cvsup package versions/questions Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011023103729.00f12f38@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <200110231519.f9NFJBu46679@vashon.polstra.com> References: <200110181548.LAA07042@world.std.com> <200110181548.LAA07042@world.std.com>
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> From where should we be getting it? (My guess would be "nearest > ftp-mirror" ?) Nearest doesn't equate to fastest if that is of importance. If faster is a concern, you will be rewarded by doing a traceroute on each of the mirrors for hops and total time. I have found some that don't even connect while others are rock reliable. BTW, I like "MTR" from the ports in place of traceroute... it gives live stats. At 08:19 AM 10.23.2001 -0700, John Polstra wrote: >In article <200110181548.LAA07042@world.std.com>, >Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com> wrote: >>=20 >> Which is the "correct" (canonical?) version of cvsup (binary) >> we should be using? > >Anything that is labeled as version 16.1e and that comes from a source >that you trust. > >> From where should we be getting it? (My guess would be "nearest >> ftp-mirror" ?) > >It really doesn't matter, functionally. > >> Is/are the gui-versions of cvsup "supersets" of the non-gui >> versions? (i.e. will the gui-version(s) all work in non-gui >> (-g) mode?) > >Yes and yes. > >> JDP's site has non-gui & gui versions, the gui-version being >> bigger, of course. But the various package-archive sites have >> a version that's bigger still. All these packages have the >> same name (cvsup-16.1e.tgz). > >The size differences are just caused by slightly different linking >methods. The largest ones (the ones in the official package archives) >are linked fully static. The ones on my web page were built specially >so they are statically linked against the Modula-3 libraries but >dynamically linked against the FreeBSD system libraries. Hence >they are smaller, but still don't require you to install Modula-3. >They were built that way because that's just how I happened to have >Modula-3 configured on my system when I built them. > >John >--=20 > John Polstra > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington= USA > "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Ch=F6gyam= Trungpa > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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