Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:39:25 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching sources from Windows? Message-ID: <d7195cff0703051039n79705eb2l98a151aa499b0326@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> References: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/03/07, frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is > possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). > What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook ( > http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html), > even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to diff with my > current source... Assuming you have fairly recent sources (6.2 or so), csup, with compress in your supfile (or the -z flag), will be faster than downloading and transferring*, even with a 28.8 modem**. * I know of no pre-packaged STABLE source archives, short of downloading a snapshot .iso (which I am not certain even exists for STABLE). ** Might not actually be true. -- --
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