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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2005 15:18:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net>
To:        "Tony Shadwick" <tshadwick@goinet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.
Message-ID:  <10959.145.248.192.30.1116595105.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050520073127.T39659@mail.goinet.com>
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>>> i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm
>>> behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill.

>> Just for information, why is CTM an "overkill"?  I use it at work for
>> the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback
>> (yet...).

> Just a thought here.  Is ssh blocked? :)  You have a machine on the
> outside that you trust?  You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point
> cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not?

Yes, ssh is blocked.  We can just use the web and ftp via a farm of three
proxies, which are able to resolve names on the Net.  We can't even do that
from our workstations or internal servers.  So...

-- 
-jpeg.



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