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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:29:17 +0100 (CET)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make release & CVS? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011280648460.10716-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
In-Reply-To: <53379.975376044@winston.osd.bsdi.com>

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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> > I want to start building releases on a home box since it's not doing much 
> > else when I'm at work. But I have a rather low bandwidth, so I was 
> > wondering about the CVS checkout of /usr/src that the make release does. 
> 
> Well, it's fairly easy to keep a cvs repo up to date even at low
> bandwidth (once you've gotten the initial sync) with cvsup.  I've been
> putting the CVS repository on the mainstream CD releases too, so they
> can give you a place to start if your bandwidth is *really* low for
> that initial sync. 

But I don't understand why you need the whole historical cvs repository
when you only use it to check out the current source, which you already
has online. 
Or am I missing something too?

Leif



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