On Saturday, February 21, 2015 19:06 CET, Henrique Lengler <henriquel...@opmbx.org> wrote: > 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?
If you don't do it already, you may want to use compression on CVS checkout. I.e. cvs -z9 co src Sebastian > -- > Regards > > Henrique Lengler
