Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:42:25 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question Message-ID: <XFMail.990128184225.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199901281827.KAA10025@apollo.backplane.com>
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On 28-Jan-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: > >:Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote: >:> >:> :How do its features compare with CVSup? >:> >:> cvsup and cpdup are two totally different programs. cvsup manages >:> CVS trees. cpdup is a templating/mirroring tool. >: >:Your characterization of CVSup isn't accurate. CVSup is a fully >:general mirroring tool... [snip] >:John > > Ah, in that case cpdup and cvsup are similar. cvsup is probably > more powerful, being a stream-oriented protocol and thus not > requiring NFS. I find cpdup extremely easy to use, though... > almost like cp. cvsup is probably a bit more involved from a > configuration standpoint. > > -Matt CVSup is fairly easy to set. Over the weekend I decided that I had had enough of CVSup the CVS tree in 5 mins over my 33k modem but waiting 45mins to cvs update /usr/src. So I set up cvsupd. Took about 30mins, including download time, to have the first locally run cvsup. Thanks John Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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