Hi, I'm trying to keep and maintain a copy of -stable source code in my system. The problem is that I can't work with CVS. It is too slow to download. My internet can download things at 500kb/s - 1MB/s, but when I am doing a checkout, the download stay too slow, I already tried with a bunch of mirrors, and it is almost the same thing. I don't know if the problem is that all CVS mirrors are slow. I let my computer all the last day doing a checkout for src ports and xenocara. After 10 hours it was in ports yet.
Also, the worst problem is that my internet connections sometimes drop, and so in an attempt to continue the interrupted checkout I run the command again, the problem is that it takes about a half hour to start to continue getting the code, this when it works, because sometimes after all this time I get: Write failed: Broken pipe Also sometimes looks like it is getting everything again, because it says cvs server: Updating foo to every file already in the folder. I'm looking to a way to get this sources, there is a long time I'm trying and it ever happens some problem like this, and I can't continue to get the sources, so I need to delete everything a start again. CVS looks too complicated and confuse. I would like to be able to get from http, git, ftp or anything sipler and faster. Is there any alternative? -- Regards Henrique Lengler
