Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:22:59 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org> To: Patrick O'Reilly <patrick@mip.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How To CVSup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105211610030.98966-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIIEFBCIAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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On Mon, 21 May 2001, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > "How to CVSup": I guess this question has been asked a million times - > sorry. Perhaps someone could just point me at a simple "how to" page > somewhere. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > There is one detail I'd like to ask up front: I intend to keep a number of > servers current using CVSup, but want to (1) minimise internet access and > (2) do a bit of testing on the latest version before using it across the > board. So, can I CVSup to one central "test" server - wait till I'm happy > that it's stable - then use CVSup on the other servers to pull the latest > off my central "test" server? You have two options: 1) Run cvsupd yourself and mirror the entire CVS repository. Each client can then cvsup from your local CVSup server. See ports/misc/cvsup-mirror. The advantage of this method is that you can have a heterogenous environment quite easily by tweaking the individual supfiles on the client machines. The obvious disadvantage is the initial transfer hit when you CVSup the entire repository. 2) cvsup only the branch(es) you want (i.e. RELENG_4) to a central server, then NFS export the source tree to each of your client machines. With this method, you would presumably have an environment composed of a single release. This isn't as flexible as Method 1; for instance, you couldn't check out items of the source tree from a particular date etc as you could if you have the CVS repository. -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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