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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:45:41 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        "Anthony Human" <anthonyh@korbitec.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup-mirror supfile configuration for specific source
Message-ID:  <44bqhbjr4q.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <490F273F58BE854EBF3D5BE7CF7A8FC3AA18FC@cptisnmail01.korbitec.int> (Anthony Human's message of "Thu\, 26 Apr 2007 09\:33\:32 %2B0200")
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Don't top-post, please.

"Anthony Human" <anthonyh@korbitec.com> writes:

> Thanks for the response.
>
> However, I'm trying to avoid having to download the entire cvs tree
> considering I only need the source 5.5 Release or 6.2 Release. The ports
> tree would be great as well.

Well, you can certainly do that.  Just set the prefix and tag
variables differently for the different branches.  Ports aren't
branched.  

> The CVS Repository is 3.1 GB which is a rather large amount for us to
> download.
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/mirror-requirements.html

Right now I seem to have about 1.6G for src and 1.2G for ports.
Still, it's a one-time expense; your ongoing download requirements
may even be a little *smaller* for keeping the whole cvs tree.



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