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Subject: Re: creating a local cvsup mirror.
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Hi Derrick,


> I want to create a local mirror for my internal freebsd systems. I seem
> to be confusing articles that are 'how to mirror' and 'how to be a
> mirror'. Is there some details/info out there that could be of help? I
> would have thought it would be enough to be running ports/net/cvsup-
> mirror would be enough on the server, and then the clients here would
> use 'cvsup -h my_cvs_server ports-all' but I end up seeing:
> May  2 12:40:49 cvs cvsupd[57822]: =3 Unknown collection "ports-all"
> 
> So if someone can clarify/point/whatever, much appreciated.

I did exactly the same as you want. I used the following article as a 
guideline:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/08/30/Big_Scary_Daemons.html


  -volker