Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:31:35 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ben Rosengart <ben+freebsd.org@narcissus.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no cvsup(8)?! Message-ID: <p06230901bf7ad1a9fd1a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20051018044958.GA44746@absinthe.tinho.net> References: <20051016020542.GA32826@absinthe.tinho.net> <4351BDE9.1030100@freebsd.org> <20051018044958.GA44746@absinthe.tinho.net>
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At 12:49 AM -0400 10/18/05, Ben Rosengart wrote: >On Sun, Oct 16, 2005, Peter Grehan wrote: > > >> In the meantime, you might want to give csup a try: >> >> http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html >> >> It's been reported to work on FreeBSD/ppc. > >This is great, though it's rather brittle -- I sometimes have to run >it a few times to get through an entire update -- switching servers >each time so as not to hit the access limits. I see from the docs >that the developer is aware of these issues. Much better than >nothing. :-) Are you using this, or cvs, or what? In my case, I have several machines running freebsd. Due to that, it is worthwhile for me to set up one of those machines (an Athlon) as a cvsup-mirror. All my other freebsd machines then connect to my own local cvsup server, so I don't have to worry about hitting access limits. For my PPC machine, the second trick I do is that I run cvsup the CVS repository into a separate directory on one of my Athlon machines. I then nfs-export that directory to the powerPC machine, and the powerPC machine does a 'cvs checkout' from the nfs-mounted directory. Thus the powerPC machine does not have to run cvsup. It sounds like a lot of work to set up, but actually it isn't as hard as it sounds. I also cvsup the ports collection into a separate directory on my athlon, and nfs-export that to the powerPC machine. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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