Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:08:42 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Matt Meola <mmeola@uswest.com>, ctm-announce@FreeBSD.ORG, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: CTM mirrors Message-ID: <200107211308.f6LD8gI43156@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <200107201607.f6KG7bo66654@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:07:37 -0600" References: <20010720093236.G52514@kc0dxw-2.uswc.uswest.com> <3B576081.AB4CFAF3@math.missouri.edu> <200107201607.f6KG7bo66654@harmony.village.org>
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On Friday, 20th July 2001, Warner Losh wrote: >In message <20010720093236.G52514@kc0dxw-2.uswc.uswest.com> Matt Meola writes: >: Some of us run FreeBSD surruptitiously behind a corporate firewall. If CTM >: ever truly goes away, then it's Linux for me, since rpm/urpmi can handle >: ftp and http proxies... > >And cvsup can't? I've run it through many different firewalls in the >past, over socks5 proxies and a couple of other strange >configurations. I'd be interested to hear how your environment is >different than mine that you can't run it. I don't know how common it is, but at my previous employer, nobody got to tunnel anything. CTM was essential. Well, essential if you wanted the FreeBSD source. The only other alternative was to download the source using a browser (since the gateway required basic authentication). That was a tedious manual process. Now that I'm doing all this at home, CTM is much better than cvsup since it encodes minimal differences (better for my download limit) and is quicker (cvsup often pauses contemplating its navel for long periods, and also sends a LOT of upstream data, which takes time). So, I'd say the main advantages are: 1) Firewall friendly (for our disadvantaged corporate friends) 2) Bandwidth/connection-time friendly (for our disadvantaged home users, including me) Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe ctm-announce" in the body of the message
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