On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
[email protected] writes:
Yesterday I was updating an 8.0 stable system to pick up a change I
specifically needed. The change was MFC'd Apr 4th at 11:38. I waited
until about 8PM and ran cvs from cvsup2.FreeBSD.org. When the change
was not there, I waited until Apr 5th, a bit after midnight. When I
still did not pick up the change, I updated from a cvs repository.
My question is how are the mirrors updated (cvsup2 specifically I
guess). In general is using csup and cvs equivalent processes for non
developers?.
Your message doesn't really make sense to me; I suspect you're confusing
cvs with cvsup, but I'm not sure. cvsup and csup are different
implementations of the same functionality, and connect to the same
servers, so they really won't be different (they are, in fact,
interchangeable). Anonymous CVS access is not widely used, and is
really recommended only for experts. Different hubs update on different
schedules, but official ones are recommended to update hourly.
First thank you for responding to an obviously badly worded question. I think my
understanding exceeds my ability to explain my question. So I will be very
specific about what I wanted.
A change was MFC'd to the xorg intel driver to include support for the new
chipsets. I took the fact that I could see the change on the web:
Date: Sun Apr 4 15:37:47 2010
New Revision: 206164
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/206164
Log: MFC r205096, r205102
Add AGP support for Intel Pineview and Ironlake chipsets.
to mean that it would be propogated out to my favored csup server in due course.
The change was not on cvsup2.FreeBSD.org by 2AM Monday, so I got a source tree
from a cvs repository my unix guru runs and updated using that. I used his
because I host it.
What I attempted to ask is (1) how are the mirrors updated; and (2), is there a
particular lag time where the latest changes would have to be there? This is not
normally an issue for me but I have a laptop that will not run X w/o this
change.
I normally do not use cvs because, I am not a developer and my 'learning new
things bucket' is pretty full. Hence my [however badly worded] question. Again
thanks for bearing with me.
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