From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 16:31:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C6D16A41F for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:31:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B9443D46 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:31:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j9IGVbHF022888; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:31:38 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20051018044958.GA44746@absinthe.tinho.net> References: <20051016020542.GA32826@absinthe.tinho.net> <4351BDE9.1030100@freebsd.org> <20051018044958.GA44746@absinthe.tinho.net> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:31:35 -0400 To: Ben Rosengart From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.3 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no cvsup(8)?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:31:42 -0000 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