On 2008-11-13, Ansen Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me first say that I looked over all the man pages, the official faqs and > I searched over the archived mailing lists before sending out these > questions ... and I'm still a little confused. So: > > 1. What are the main differences between cvs and cvsup when updating sources > to stable?
using cvs you can view the commit log, diffs between random version, etc. all while working from a remote repository with just the source tree on your machine. you can also do these operations if you use CVSup, but you have to mirror the whole repository, not just take a single working checkout. > 2. I'm just the typical home user of obsd, so which should I use, cvs or > cvsup? probably cvs, very easy setup, it's all in base and the instructions (anoncvs.html) are straightforward. if you need a local mirror of the full repository, cvsync is another option, it's fairly straightforward. I prefer this over CVSup. there are one or two mirrors which also make the repository available by rsync but this is uncommon. (quite possibly due to the enormous memory load of serving a large tree via rsync to pre-v3 clients). > 3. As of Nov 13th of 2008 why do only 4 of the 17 cvsup servers have the > xenocara repository? > ( according to this list: http://www.openbsd.org/cvsup.html ) the list is probably out-of-date, it's difficult to check CVSup mirrors (partly because it's i386-only, partly because there's no easy way to list the files on the server as there is with most other protocols). diffs to update it are very welcome :-)
