Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 18:56:26 +0000 (GMT) From: ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CVS Tree Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970527185331.14580C-100000@tom.fe.up.pt> In-Reply-To: <199705271740.KAA05511@austin.polstra.com>
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, John Polstra wrote: > In article <Pine.OSF.3.96.970527162130.9836A-100000@tom.fe.up.pt>, > <ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt> wrote: > > > > My question now is: Can I ftp the complete tree from a FreeBSD mirror > > site as in ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-CVS? > > > > My goal is to use CVSup and run it every 2 days to keep my sources > > current and extract a copy of FreeBSD-stable every week and then > > do a make world :-). Any comments on how to do this are welcome! > > If you are going to use CVSup anyway, then don't bother getting the > initial tree via FTP. Just get it using CVSup -- it is faster than > FTP. > > In other words, CVSup can _create_ your tree as well as update it. I know it can but I won't CVSup a 50MB tree over a 33.6K line. I wan't to usea T1 line to which I have access and FTP the tree from there. Than I will use a ZIP drive to transfer it to my home box and run CVSup. Can this be done? > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth > Thanks for your reply. Jorge
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