I believe the source tarballs avaliable on the CDs (and mirrors) come with CVS directories, so they might be a good start. The FAQ might shed some light on this.
/Alexander On February 21, 2015 7:06:44 PM CET, Henrique Lengler <henriquel...@opmbx.org> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to keep and maintain a copy of -stable source code in my >system. >The problem is that I can't work with CVS. >It is too slow to download. My internet can download things at 500kb/s >- 1MB/s, >but when I am doing a checkout, the download stay too slow, I already >tried with a >bunch of mirrors, and it is almost the same thing. I don't know if the >problem is that >all CVS mirrors are slow. >I let my computer all the last day doing a checkout for src ports and >xenocara. After >10 hours it was in ports yet. > >Also, the worst problem is that my internet connections sometimes drop, >and so in an >attempt to continue the interrupted checkout I run the command again, >the problem is >that it takes about a half hour to start to continue getting the code, >this when it >works, because sometimes after all this time I get: >Write failed: Broken pipe >Also sometimes looks like it is getting everything again, because it >says >cvs server: Updating foo >to every file already in the folder. > >I'm looking to a way to get this sources, there is a long time I'm >trying and it >ever happens some problem like this, and I can't continue to get the >sources, so I >need to delete everything a start again. > >CVS looks too complicated and confuse. >I would like to be able to get from http, git, ftp or anything sipler >and faster. >Is there any alternative? >-- >Regards > >Henrique Lengler
