Date: 08 Oct 1996 11:31:27 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Wow, CVSup is cool! Message-ID: <57ohidg328.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Jake Hamby's message of Fri, 4 Oct 1996 13:50:53 -0700 (PDT) References: <Pine.AUX.3.94.961004133308.12298B-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> writes: > > After complaining about some problems I had with sup4.freebsd.org (it > repeatedly fetched large chunks of contrib even though nothing, other than > the datestamp, had changed!), I decided to try out CVSup, even though it > involves installing the 5MB Modula-3 package first. I was _very_ > impressed! My favorite features: I switched from sup to ctm some time ago and ctm is more appropriate for my modem link but last night, after a mail gateway disaster, I was forced to grab some ctm deltas by hand and it occured to me that a supscan of the deltas directory would be usefull so that when something does get badly spammed in your delta directory (assuming you archive them all which I do) then you can run sup as a one off to repair/retrieve missing delta files. It would mean having a slightly different structure to the delta directory layout in that when a new base delta is started it should be in in a separate directory. Otherwise, running sup across the whole lot would download all the base deltas that wouldn't be needed. My desire for this is that I needed to go out and got caught up trying to determine which deltas were missing and getting odd files one at a time. I really wanted some mechanism that I could just leave running while I was out that knew to grab the missing/damaged files. Sup was actually quite good at that function and as a one off recovery mechanism would still be useful. Anyone else think this would be useful? -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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