From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 9 3:45:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tripos.com (gatekeeper.tripos.com [192.160.145.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3540137B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 03:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tripos.com (8.8.8+Sun) id FAA22595; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 05:45:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from unknown(172.20.5.15) by gatekeeper.tripos.com via smap (V5.5) id xma022591; Thu, 9 Nov 00 05:44:52 -0600 Received: from tripos.com ([172.20.152.158]) by tripos.com (980919.SGI.STAND) via ESMTP id FAA26047; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 05:44:49 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A0A8E31.600A59B2@tripos.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 11:44:49 +0000 From: Steve Coles X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Paterson Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping stable without cvs type tools. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jon, I ftp ctm deltas using "wget" on my NT work machine without (ab)using the corporate network, Get a a base delta something like this wget --passive-ftp --tries=10 --timeout=600 -nd -m ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/cvs-cur/cvs-cur.6000xEmpty.gz Then I just use the NT scheduler with something like: wget --passive-ftp --tries=10 --timeout=600 -nd -m ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/cvs-cur/cvs-cur.[6-9]???.gz The only problem is the initial empty delta, which the firewall insists on virus-checking and because of it's size - the file transfer never gets through. I, personally, would be interested if there was a way to split the base delta into chunks, akin to the way in ftp that you can tar up whole directories. Sorry to the list if this is OT / wrong OS. Steve Jon Paterson wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to keep up to date without using CVS or > one of the other tools. CVSSUP is fine at work for the servers here but > could be v painful down a 56K modem ;-) > > I can burn data onto CD's at work and take them home, what would I need to > download? I know that there is data available on the ftp servers, but I am > not sure what is required here.. > > thanks for any advice, and hope the question does not sound too stupid! > > regards, > > Jon Paterson > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message