Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:19:07 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading/CVSUPping with bad ISP connection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910281617570.98407-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910280836260.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Only 10 minutes or so? I was expecting a lot longer than that. That's good to know. I'll have to read the man pages about the cvsup files. Then i'll give it a go. I doubt 3.2->3.3 should be that big or a deal. -jm On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > >> Is there a way to do this in stages? So that each time i lose my >> connection i can pick up where i left off? > >Jeez, how often do you loose your connection? A CVSup update >shouldn't take more than 10 minutes or so over 28.8 (last i remeber). > >Of you mean resuming a checkout, CVSup seems to pick up where it >left off mighty quick. > >However, you can mess with your supfile and break up the larger >collections into smaller ones. > >try breaking src-all into src-sys, src-lib, etc... > >-Alfred > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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