Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:13:58 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Querying a cvsup server Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202070928080.88011@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <444nv24rgs.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202052110260.72251@wonkity.com> <4462fjeosv.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202061403320.79818@wonkity.com> <444nv24rgs.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes: > >> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> >>> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes: >>> >>>> Is there a way to query one of the FreeBSD cvsup mirrors, something >>>> like 'svn list -v svn:...' (only with cvs or csup)? I'm looking to >>>> find the revision or date of a file. >>> >>> Anonymous CVS is probably the best approach for you. >>> It's covered in the Handbook. >> >> The goal is to check arbitrary files on FreeBSD cvsup servers to see >> if they are up to date. AFAIK, there are only a couple of anoncvs >> servers and the normal cvsupN.freebsd.org servers don't do that. > > It's not clear why you're insisting on using the cvsup servers as > opposed to anonymous CVS, I'm not looking for a specific version of a file, but trying to find out whether any arbitrary cvsup mirror is current with the main repository. Not version control, but network monitoring. Rephrasing: "cvsupN.freebsd.org, do you have the latest version of the doc and src trees?" > but if you have to use those, then you need to download the whole > repository in "CVS mode" and use cvs with that. The cvsup protocol > does not support version control operations. It's desirable to keep bandwidth usage low. csup can be forced with -i to only download one file, and that file has the creation date. The trick to taking that as a freshness indicator for the whole would be picking a file that changes on every commit. Or maybe "sup/*/checkouts.cvs:.", which is updated even when -i specifies a nonexistent file.
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