On 01/28/12 09:12, Dave Anderson wrote: > Thanks for the info. I've been using -Pd because > <http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html> says to use them; I haven't yet > had a chance to look into how cvs works beyond reading the man page, > faq, etc.
and please continue to use them. -Pd is the RIGHT way. Apparently, Philip gets away with it, but he's a developer and he knows this stuff pretty well, we don't expect ordinary users to clean up the mess it can make. I'll defer to his expertise on coding and probably CVS, but there are many things in many parts of the tree where a lack of a -Pd will hurt you in ways other than slow updates. There are thousands of ways to use cvs incorrectly, -Pd is the correct way to do updates (or maybe -PAd under some circumstances). And none of this has anything to do with your real problem. I run far slower hardware than most people, and xenocara updates don't take nine hours (and if I understand you, that was nine hours then you gave up and killed it). This has NOTHING TO DO WITH COMMAND LINE OPTIONS. I wrote the FAQ you used, I use that FAQ, and I do it on hardware like mac68k and sparc, and it works, it does not take nine hours to update xenocara (it just feels like it...) If you could...next time you see this, use a CVSROOT=anon...@obsd.cec.mtu.edu:/cvs and see if things run better. NOTE: DO NOT GET USED TO USING THIS MIRROR, IT IS BEING SHUT DOWN VERY SOON. But, being it's been being advertised as being shut down, it's pretty lightly loaded, and it handles the CVS temp directory as an mfs, which really really helps (this is on the server end. Nothing you can do about it on your side). My hunch, as a soon-to-be former mirror operator is that you are having a problem with your mirror of choice, not a problem on your end, and it may be a problem with multiple mirrors. I just checked out xenocara from that mirror, and then did an update on my amd64 system, the update took less than one minute. Your results will vary, but not to nine hours, unless you are using dialup. :) Nick.
