Re: Querying a cvsup server
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Warren Block wbl...@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Querying a cvsup server
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: 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. http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/cvsup-stats-global.php -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Querying a cvsup server
Warren Block wbl...@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Querying a cvsup server
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Warren Block wbl...@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Querying a cvsup server
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:53:58 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Warren Block wbl...@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.
This is one of the reasons I maintain a local copy of the CVS repo
which I keep up-to-date via csup. Comes in quite handy at times.
In fact, the CVS repo is the *only* thing I update directly via csup.
I then do all my /usr/{doc,ports,src} updates from the local repo.
Great for creating patches for submission, too.
HTH
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Conrad J. Sabatier
conr...@cox.net
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Querying a cvsup server
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