Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:13:37 -0300 From: Carlos Laviola <carlos@laviola.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't get cvsup to work behind NAT Message-ID: <20030926231337.GA6251@laviola.org> In-Reply-To: <20030925223337.GD85042@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20030925181443.GA15877@laviola.org> <20030925223337.GD85042@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:33:37AM +0200, Simon Barner wrote: > > Anyway, I have the system installed now, got some ports and all, and > > wanted to check out RELENG_4_8 from a cvsup mirror to bring the system > > up to date, but it just won't work. Sometimes it gets stuck updating > > src/UPDATING (to be sure, I erased it, and it manages to download it > > again), but that's as far as it goes. cvsup(1) says that if I can reach > > the server's port 5999, I'm good to go. >=20 > Err, if it managed to download one file, it should be able to the rest, > too, at least AFAICS). >=20 > Maybe you should try a different cvsup mirror: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I've tried that several times with mirrors from all over the place (both the Brazilian ones, which should be optimal to me, and cvsupNN.freebsd.org and several others). I managed to get cvsup to update a very small part of the tree when I just switched from RELENG_4_8 to '.' as the tag (which is supposed to fetch current, right?). So I have no idea what to do now. :-( > (at the end of the page there is a mirror list). >=20 > You could also use ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup to find the most > responsive mirror for you. I tried that, too, but thanks for the notice. Anyone else has any advice, anything I should try at all? This is really annoying... Thanks, --=20 Carlos Laviola <carlos@laviola.org>
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