On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:31:26PM -0700, walt wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: >> :What do you use to keep your pkgsrc tree up to date? >> :Anonymous cvs does work but is pretty slow. >> :The cvsup mirrors seem to be rather busy. >> :I used the mercurial repo at >> :http://hg.scode.org/mirror/pkgsrc >> :for some time, but it seems to be down now. >> : >> : Johannes >> >> I do an overnight anoncvs update. It isn't the most efficient >> way to do it but I don't know of any other official way to do it. > > I used to use cvsup from one of the NetBSD mirror sites, but I finally > discovered that the cvsup mirrors for pkgsrc just didn't seem to update > properly, so I switched back to anoncvs and the problem disappeared. > Slower, but safer.
I see that pkgsrc is available on the NetBSD and mirror sites via *rsync*. I am not clear why everybody keeps dealing with the problems with cvsup or slowness of cvs. You can use the *mirror* tool (http://hightek.org/mirror/) that I posted here a while back that I originally wrote for fast, simple and automated updates of the Dragonfly CVS repository. - Vince
