Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:27:39 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FREEBSD.ORG>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FREEBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, Ade Lovett <ade@FREEBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FREEBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FREEBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <200009010027.SAA01369@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200008312030.e7VKTxG20674@netplex.com.au> References: <200008311655.KAA04688@nomad.yogotech.com> <200008312030.e7VKTxG20674@netplex.com.au>
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> > > >> 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
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