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.
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