On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:35:56PM -0500, Brian S. Julin wrote:
>
> OK, so I have the go-ahead to put up an anoncvs service
> at work, And I have set the software up to do just that.
> Even when/if we do the SourceForge thing it will be good
> to have a faster/redundant server.
>
> What is the best way to go about the mirror end of the
> process?
>
> Could someone who's run a GGI CVS mirror at some point
> write me PM?
>
> P.S. It boggles my mind that CVS hasn't this capability built-in.
> A "relay" mode would make much sense. The CVS folks might be
> source tree gurus, I don't know, but the server really blows
> chunks from an administrative perspective, right down to keeping
> the docs in info format :-P. Some of them have obviously tried
> to fix it here and there to make it sane (kudos to the LockDir
> directive), but it's a real beast.
What about CVSup?
CVSUP(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual CVSUP(1)
NAME
cvsup - network distribution package for CVS repositories
SYNOPSIS
cvsup [-1aDeEgksvzZ] [-A addr] [-b base] [-c collDir] [-d delLimit] [-h
host] [-i pattern] [-l lockfile] [-L verbosity] [-p port] [-P
m|a|port|lo-hi|-] [-r maxRetries] supfile [destDir]
DESCRIPTION
CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of
files across a network. The name CVSup refers to the package as a whole.
It consists of a client program, cvsup, and a server program, cvsupd.
This manual page describes the general aspects of the CVSup package, as
well as the particulars of the cvsup client program. For detailed infor-
mation about cvsupd, see cvsupd(8).
Unlike more traditional network distribution packages, such as rdist and
sup, CVSup is tailored specifically for distributing CVS repositories.
CVSup takes advantage of the properties of CVS repositories and the files
they contain (in particular, RCS files), enabling it to perform updates
much faster than traditional systems.
Nicholas
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