From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 9 4:29:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134D837B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 04:29:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA97527; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:59:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 22:59:01 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jon Paterson Subject: RE: keeping stable without cvs type tools. Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Nov-00 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 ;-) cvsup'ing the source over 56k modem is not very slow. I track the CVS repo and the only time it takes a while is when someone lays down a tag. The worst part would be the initial update, but if you take a recent source tree from CD (or update and work and burn it to cd) it will be fairly painless. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message