From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 14 11:33:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C73810656A5 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:33:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@nitro.dk) Received: from smtp.fullrate.dk (smtp.fullrate.dk [90.185.1.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1698FC12 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:33:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.26] (4304ds2-vlb.1.fullrate.dk [90.184.171.166]) by smtp.fullrate.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995679CDAC; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:13:38 +0100 (CET) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" In-Reply-To: <4CDCFF30.60307@teambox.fr> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:13:38 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4CC81EE7.4020607@teambox.fr> <1289492183.40288.37.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <4CDCFF30.60307@teambox.fr> To: Patrick Bihan-Faou X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ken Smith Subject: Re: Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:33:31 -0000 On 12 Nov 2010, at 09:47, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > Don't take this as flamebait, because I have no intention in starting = a war on this particular issue, but as good as cvsup is, this is = unfortunately a fairly isolated tool that, from my prospective (which is = necessarily biaised and incomplete), does not offer any feature = compelling enough to prefer it over rsync in our case. That position is = by essence just a personal view, applicable to me only and not to = anybody else. Also I have to admit that now that the m3 dependency is = gone with csup, it becomes easier to return to it. The issue is not to remove CVS via rsync - just to remove it from the = FTP collection where it doesn't belong. There is nothing which prevents mirror sites from providing access to = the CVS repo via rsync, even if they get it via CVSup... If it's useful (IE, any of the primary mirrors requests it) we can = probably rather easily set up rsync access via cvsup-master. That said, = I think rsync access is likely not too interesting for most master = mirrors as they likely provide access to the repo via CVSup already, so = they have cvsup installed already. --=20 Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org clusteradm