From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 28 14:34:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8533106566B; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:34:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BE48FC14; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:34:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (heho.snv.jussieu.fr [134.157.184.22]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.4/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id q7SEY2JX020111 ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:34:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 164 Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q7SEXaJr047976; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:33:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: (from arno@localhost) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id q7SEXa1o047973; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:33:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from arno) To: Jim Pingle From: "Arno J. Klaassen" References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20120823225855.U33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1345729674.52121.4.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <5036497F.7020501@icarz.com> <1345736581.27688.403.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <50384172.3090706@pingle.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:33:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: <50384172.3090706@pingle.org> (Jim Pingle's message of "Fri\, 24 Aug 2012 23\:07\:30 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 503CD6DA.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 503CD6DA.000/134.157.184.22/heho.snv.jussieu.fr/heho.snv.jussieu.fr/ Cc: re@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:34:34 -0000 Jim Pingle writes: > On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: >>> >>> I found two good primers: >>> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#SUBVERSION-PRIMER >>> >>> The second primer in the committer handbook seems to indicate that it >>> is difficult to run an SVN mirror. This appears to me to be the >>> biggest drawback. I have been using CVS and perforce for years, but >>> subversion is new to me. >> >> It may be difficult to run an svn mirror that allows you to commit >> locally and get those changes back to the project, but running a >> read-only mirror is trivial. The script I run nightly from cron to sync >> my local mirror is: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> # >> # svnsync to pull in changes from FreeBSD to my local mirror. >> # >> svnsync sync file:///local/vc/svn/base >> >> I can't remember how I initially created and populated the mirror, but >> it's likely I grabbed a snapshot of the mirror at work and brought it >> home on a thumb drive (just to avoid initial network DL time). > > I spent a little time today setting up an SVN mirror after reading this > thread and wrote up a how-to for those looking to do the same. > > http://www.pingle.org/2012/08/24/freebsd-svn-mirror > > Comments/Flames/Corrections welcome... thanx; works out of the box for me (using the "svnserve_enable" path). That said : I glanced at a diff of a stable/8 checkout both from /home/ncvs repo and new /home/freebsd-svn one, and saw a (maybe well-known ..) 'feature' : diff ./src/contrib/amd/include/am_defs.h /raid1/bsd/8/src/contrib/amd/include/am_defs.h 42c42 < * $FreeBSD: stable/8/contrib/amd/include/am_defs.h 174299 2007-12-05 16:03:52Z obrien $ --- > * $FreeBSD: src/contrib/amd/include/am_defs.h,v 1.15.2.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $ I wondered why the date (and commiter ...) in the expansion were different (from the svn log ): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r196045 | kensmith | 2009-08-03 10:13:06 +0200 (Mon, 03 Aug 2009) | 4 lines Copy head to stable/8 as part of 8.0 Release cycle. Approved by: re (Implicit) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r174299 | obrien | 2007-12-05 17:03:52 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 3 lines So the 'Copy head' chain does not update the $FreeBSD tag, whereas the consequent svn to cvs chain does. FYI, Arno > Jim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >