From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed May 2 23:26:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3374537B440 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 23:26:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f436QgO01469; Thu, 3 May 2001 16:26:42 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 16:26:43 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Peter Wemm Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp-master method In-Reply-To: <20010503062116.B91EA380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2 May 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > --exclude branches --exclude FreeBSD-CVS --exclude mailing-lists > to the command line. These have many, many files and take quite a while > to sync up. While we are in catch-up mode, I think it would be > an idea to leave these out for the moment. > > An alternative may be to cvsup these files directly and completely bypass > ftp-master. There are supfiles in these areas, as well as in > doc/mailing-lists/ i highly recommend using cvsup to manager the FreeBSD-CVS tree as well as all the branches tree. IMHO it's a bit tricker to setup and maintain CVSup if you haven't before, but it handles those trees much better than rsync. of course this assumes one is cvsupping either from cvsup-master, or that ftp-master will also maintain a cvsupd for mirrors. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message