Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:40:43 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current Message-ID: <20030131034043.GA53996@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030131030916.GA11445@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20030129191822.GO78848@starjuice.net> <p05200f31ba5e4c0bbc26@[128.113.24.47]> <20030131120311.F16630@aurema.com> <20030131030916.GA11445@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:09:16PM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake Christopher Vance <vance@aurema.com>:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:35:40PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > : How about requiring the user to touch some file in / or /boot which
> > : indicates the branch-tag that's acceptable for installworlds? Then
> > : you just need to propagate the tag from the 'cvs co' stage to some
> > : file under /usr/src (such as /usr/src/CVS/Tag ).
> >
> > Some of use cvsup and won't have CVS/Tag.
>
> OT: Is there a good way to get the CVS metadata in /usr/src and
> /usr/ports without transferring the entire source tree over the
> network? On some machines, I'd like to be able to do a CVS
> {diff,log,update} now and then, but I don't have the disk space
> for the entire repository. I usually end up blowing away /usr/src
> and fetching a new copy from a CVS server, but I'm sure this is
> far from ideal for the people who pay for that server's bandwidth.
>
anoncvs
See the handbook for info.
--
Steve
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