Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 01:23:11 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Joe Kraft <jvk-list@thekrafts.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, frzburn@gmail.com Subject: Re: Fetching sources from Windows? Message-ID: <19260B9A-F7EA-4718-A17E-6ECB352B9CC8@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <460D2569.4020309@thekrafts.org> References: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <460D2569.4020309@thekrafts.org>
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On 31/03/2007, at 12:57 AM, Joe Kraft wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0500, frzburn wrote: >>> Hi! >>> I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to >>> know if it is >>> possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at >>> work). >>> What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the >>> handbook ( >>> http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ >>> synching.html), >>> even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to >>> diff with my >>> current source... >> Basically, that is what I do. I only have a regular old phone >> modem at home. >> I take my home machine in to the office where I have a reliable >> 100 Mb/s >> and do my installs there. The only problem is fixing up IPs and >> host >> names. >> If I ever get rich and get a laptop with significant disk, I can just >> carry that and pull everything down to it and take it home to work >> on the desktop machine - or I could get one of those nice big USB >> drives >> and download everything to that. >> ////jerry > I have a computer that's not connected to the internet that I keep > up to date using CTM. I've subscribed to one of the ctm-XXX mail > list with my work address and I just save the messages to a > relatively small USB memory stick from the windows machine. Once I > have the updates on there I bring the stick home and run ctm-rmail > and it updates my source tree. > > It would have been even easier if I was able to get ftp access to > get the CTM updates directly without resorting to using e-mail for > the transfer. You can! The CTM deltas are available from FTP. You would have started out by getting an "empty" delta from FTP - and all the increments are located in the same place. There is more information in the handbook. Cheers Sam
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