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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
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Subject: Re: cvsup package versions/questions
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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
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 Trungpa
>
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