Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:53:35 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup, FreeBSD-CVS tree and branches Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0110191348270.29121-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200110190346.f9J3krv72021@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > Where do you put your cvsup tree that is used to serve end users ? > > /u/cvsup, but that's an implementation detal. ah huh.. ok, so i am getting the idea that the tree that cvsupd needs, needs to live (ugh, really bad grammar) in a separate area. > > is /pub/FreeBSD/development/FreeBSD-CVS/ > > > on ftp.freebsd.org, the root of the various cvsup trees ? > > > or is it a checked out full version of the cvsup tree, but not > > actually suitable to seed a cvsup(d) tree ? > > No. ok. i'm assuming no to both. > On my system, I exclude (on the rsync client side) all of the unpacked > source code bits; specifically: > > /development/FreeBSD-CVS ... > /branches/4.0-stable/supfile.cvsup > /doc/mailing-lists/archive > /doc/mailing-lists/supfile.cvsup > /doc/mailing-lists/sup hmm, ok. that makes sense to me. in fact i can't see any point in a `full' rsync over the whole site anymore as that just puts a lot of load on the master server. but the directory structure is confusing me.. so /development/FreeBSD-CVS can be fetched by cvsup, but is NOT the cvsupd tree /branches/* can be fetched by cvsup, but is NOT the cvsupd tree /doc/mailing-lists can be fetched by cvsup ? or.. > The presence and contents of the `supfile.cvsup' files and `sup' > directories on ftp-master should be a big clue to you as to how they > are maintained. I personally update the 2.2 tree once a week, and all in that case, i have this large clue, but not even leverage to swing it. > of the other trees every six hours (in the same cron job as runs the > rsync itself). I don't provide the CVS tree itself in FTP space; > there are far better mechanisms for that now, although since I'm no > longer in a disk-space crunch I might well add it back. that's what i'd like to do. the question is where. it `seemed' like a good location was the development/FreeBSD-CVS/ area, but apparently not. > > gnats release=current prefix=prefixes/FreeBSD-gnats.current > www release=current prefix=prefixes/FreeBSD-www.current > mail-archive release=current prefix=prefixes/FreeBSD-mail.current > distrib release=self prefix=prefixes/distrib.self > > `prefixes/distrib.self' should be a symbolic link pointing to the > parent directory of the `sup' directory in which cvsupd's control sorry, i should have added the other bits. mail-archive, www and gnats are there. distrib is a bit of a worry in terms of updating itself because of various hacks, but i suppose i could live with that, i think.. hmm, thanks for the feedback. back to the chaos and confusion now.. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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