Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:02:47 -0700 From: David Leimbach <dleimbac@VerariSoft.Com> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup? Message-ID: <EF7995A8-1787-483F-8ED1-F6667FAA1769@VerariSoft.Com> In-Reply-To: <20050627221028.GR14567@elvis.mu.org> References: <BB91FD65-4CDB-4B8B-9684-E25BC050B9E3@VerariSoft.Com> <p06230901bee520d0e356@[128.113.24.47]> <20050627081957.GP14567@elvis.mu.org> <p06230906bee615e0538a@[128.113.24.47]> <20050627221028.GR14567@elvis.mu.org>
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On Jun 27, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> At 10:19 AM +0200 6/27/05, Maxime Henrion wrote: >> >>> >>> The latest version of the snapshot can be found at : >>> >>> http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html >>> >>> I'd be interested in knowing if it works fine under FreeBSD/ppc. >>> >> >> I downloaded the latest version, and it compiled without any >> problems on powerPC, and seems to be working fine. It is relatively >> slow, but then that was mentioned on the web page. But if you're on >> a platform where we don't have modula-3 support, then it's much >> better >> to have csup as an option, than to have no cvsup-ish option at all! >> >> I don't know if csup results in a larger load on the server that >> it's pointed at. >> > > Yes, csup as it is now should put a much larger load on the server > because it can't send revision numbers (those are contained in the > status file) and only sends MD5 checksums, so the server has to guess > which revision number this MD5 checksum matches. > > >> What I did was 'csup' once, pointing at my own cvsup-mirror. I >> compared that to the src tree I had via other means. I then updated >> my cvsup-mirror, and then updated both the 'csup' src tree and the >> 'cvsup' one. The 'csup' src-tree was updated with all the same >> changes as the 'cvsup' one. >> > > Great, thanks for doing these tests! > > Maxime > Nice I'll hopefully check it out tonight sometime :) Dave
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