From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 31 17:28: 9 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFB937B43E; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (yogotech.nokia.com [4.22.66.156]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA16046; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:27:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01369; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:27:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:27:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009010027.SAA01369@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Wemm Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Tony Finch , Josef Karthauser , Warner Losh , "David O'Brien" , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Doug Barton , Ade Lovett , Jonathan Lemon , cvs-committers@FREEBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes In-Reply-To: <200008312030.e7VKTxG20674@netplex.com.au> References: <200008311655.KAA04688@nomad.yogotech.com> <200008312030.e7VKTxG20674@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >> Although it should be a file in CVSROOT, and so will probably turn > > > >> up with a cvsup of the repository. > > > > > > > >Obviously not under CVS control right? You may need to talk with John > > > >Polstra about having a file that's constantly changing that is not under > > > >CVS control, to make sure CVSup will 'Do The Right Thing'. > > > > > > Note that the files in CVSROOT/commitlogs have this property. cvsup > > > uses the rsync protocol for them. > > > > Yes, but they must be setup 'specially' for this to work well. > > No, it is not required. cvsup will 'do the right thing' with or without > any 'special setup'. The special setup on our cvsup distribution network > is to disable rsync for CVSROOT as we append to files more often than > changing them and it's far easier for the internal cvsup append code to > deal with CVSROOT/commitlogs on a regular basis than to fire up rsync all > the time on the chance that a CVSROOT file changed. If you don't use this 'special setup', it takes a *VERY* *VERY* long time for CVSup to download files over slow links, since it uses an extremely ineffecient protocol, making CVSup all but useless. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message