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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:39:25 -0600
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fetching sources from Windows?
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0703051039n79705eb2l98a151aa499b0326@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com>

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On 05/03/07, frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is
> possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work).
> What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook (
> http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html),
> even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to diff with my
> current source...

Assuming you have fairly recent sources (6.2 or so),
csup, with compress in your supfile (or the -z flag), will
be faster than downloading and transferring*, even
with a 28.8 modem**.


* I know of no pre-packaged STABLE source archives,
short of downloading a snapshot .iso (which I am not
certain even exists for STABLE).

** Might not actually be true.

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