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Date:      Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:47:21 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc:        FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvsup vs cvsupd?
Message-ID:  <3D49E4A9.5040800@owt.com>
References:  <20020801201005.T12799-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>

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Peter Leftwich wrote:

> "The term CVSup, capitalized just so, refers to the entire software
> package. Its main components are the client cvsup which runs on each user's
> machine, and the server cvsupd which runs at each of the FreeBSD mirror sites."
> 
> I was under the impression that cvsup'ing would simply do a series of
> anonymous ftp's to a remote directory.  Is this cvsupd [daemon] running on
> a particular port, using its own specific [newfangled] protocol?  THANKSup.


If you do a "man cvsup", it will tell you the default port. There is 
more to it than ftp. Your machines are comparing files and maintaining 
a list of ones that they have touched. The mirror is a raw format file 
and has all of the changes in cvs form.

I have multiple machines and I maintain a local cvsup-mirror. There is 
a port to do that. I do one slow download (DSL) and everything else is 
at 100baseT. Ruby's cvsupd points to cvsup16 and is fired up as a cron 
job. Everything else points to ruby and I run them as I need them. I 
also maintain ruby's source using ruby's cvsup-mirror.

Kent


-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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