From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 28 13:04:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15221 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:04:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15200 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:03:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.46.40] (helo=ragnet.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 105ybO-00009L-00; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:03:51 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 105wOX-0001rq-00; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:42:25 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901281827.KAA10025@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:42:25 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Jan-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: > >:Matthew Dillon 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