(from -users, crossposted since I'm seeking information) On Jan 5, 2009, at 11:23 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> <snip> > rsync does indeed seem to get blocked more frequently than does > cvs. At this point I'm not sure which is more reliable: we set up > rsync service because the sourceforge cvs server kept getting > clogged for people, but perhaps that's no longer the case. > > If people are having good results with cvs, maybe that's what we > should advocate, especially since it seems like we've been getting a > fair number of instances where the rsync mirrors don't update. > > That being said, I'd like to discontinue the cvs* packages on Leopard, since the version that comes with Xcode 3.x is the most current upstream version (the same as ours). One area of concern is handling proxies. I've gotten reports when I first broached this idea that Apple's cvs does have the capability to do proxies, but I wasn't able to verify this myself. If anyone has first-hand experience using this, or a handy reference link, that would be much appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
