Oops--I confused the situation with that of the mirroring of package sources: rsync sounds like the way to go.
That would explain why I wasn't able to get new packages right after the commit message came in. On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 03:32, Martin Costabel wrote: > Alexander Hansen wrote: > > CVS is delayed because the files have to be copied over to the anonymous > > server. rsync access is delayed because the files have to get mirrored > > on opendarwin's server. > > Unlike sourceforge's anon cvs that, when it works at all, can very well > be several days out of sync (4 days right now), rsync is updated very > quickly and regularly (hourly I think). > > > On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 06:03 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > >> Is there some trick besides using ./inject.pl and fink > >> selupdate-rsync > >> to keep fink current to the cvs? I am finding that the last couple of > >> days > >> worth of changes that appear in the fink-commits mailing list aren't > >> pulled > >> down to my machine. > > The nice thing about rsync is that it is rather easy to use by hand (man > rsync). If you want to get a listing of the available files or pull just > one or two updated files, you can do it easily. For example > > rsync opendarwin.org::finkinfo/10.2-gcc3.3/stable/main/finkinfo/x11/ > > gives you a listing of the available files in that directory, including > modification dates. For the server syntax, instead of > "opendarwin.org::", you can also use "rsync://fink.opendarwin.org" or > even "rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net". ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
