Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 16:26:43 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp-master method Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0105031625030.7520-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20010503062116.B91EA380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Wed, 2 May 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > --exclude branches --exclude FreeBSD-CVS --exclude mailing-lists > to the command line. These have many, many files and take quite a while > to sync up. While we are in catch-up mode, I think it would be > an idea to leave these out for the moment. > > An alternative may be to cvsup these files directly and completely bypass > ftp-master. There are supfiles in these areas, as well as in > doc/mailing-lists/ i highly recommend using cvsup to manager the FreeBSD-CVS tree as well as all the branches tree. IMHO it's a bit tricker to setup and maintain CVSup if you haven't before, but it handles those trees much better than rsync. of course this assumes one is cvsupping either from cvsup-master, or that ftp-master will also maintain a cvsupd for mirrors. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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