Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
We could just distribute the CVS tree and write a front-end utility in csh or sh that we distribute along with the rest of the system to do the nitty gritty work of actually checking something out into /usr/src. In fact, I think that would be preferable.NetBSD is distributed on pure CVS, anything else is a convenience. However, because CVS is so impressively bad for initial checkouts, they recommend downloading the rather small source and pkgsrc tarballs, and only using CVS for actual updates. This could work for DragonFly too, with the added bonus of pre-distributed cvs dotfiles or shell aliases. Maybe 'make update' (or whatever it is) could be wired to work that way too.
CVS is a beat concerning performance and CPU load, both for server and client. I'd say rsync is the best deal for now. cvsync does cvs-only (so, like rsync), but it has a bug which breaks the RCS files in some cases. The author didn't want to fix it though :/ cvsync with checkout mode and the bug fixed would be definitely better than rsync. Maybe we could do that on a weekend sprint, it doesn't seem too complicated to me. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \
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