Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:38:42 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Visigoth <visigoth@telemere.net>, Daniel Hauer <dh@enter.net> Subject: Re: How to apply patches? Message-ID: <20000825123842.E72778@ringwraith.office1.bg> In-Reply-To: <7832.967194613@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:10:13AM %2B0200 References: <20000825115946.D72778@ringwraith.office1.bg> <7832.967194613@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:10:13AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > CVSup was originally developed as a tool for mirroring repositories. It > doesn't sound like you need a repository. It sounds like you just need > checked out source, provided that the tool you use to update that > checked out source doesn't blow away your local modifications. True. I was thinking along the lines of CVSup because it is almost the only way for me to checkout source (see below). > You could use anoncvs to check out and then maintain a source tree. > Local modifications to the tree will be left intact. Every now and > then, a FreeBSD committer may make a change in an area that you have > already changed. In this case, you'll get a CVS conflict, the conflict > will be clearly marked inside the file and you will need to edit the > file and fix the conflict. Fixing conflicts is often trivial. Right. Been there, done that :) > For information on anoncvs, see this web page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/anoncvs.html The only obstacle (yet quite a serious one :( ) before me using anoncvs is.. are there any mirror servers? anoncvs.freebsd.org keeps giving me a busy signal most of the time :( It's quite rare that I do login :( A .de mirror would be perfect, I'd quite happily settle for a .uk or any European mirrors.. even a US one would be fine, if it would just let me in every once in a while ;) G'luck, Peter -- If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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