On 01:28:57 Nov 13, Ansen Lloyd wrote: > 1. What are the main differences between cvs and cvsup when updating sources > to stable? >
cvs is the revision control technology. You can use cvs to check out the main OpenBSD repository to your local machine by which you only get the files pertaining to the revision you ask. Whereas cvsup and cvsync are tools that fetch the entire cvs repository to your local machine. So you have to necessary run a cvs checkout on your local repository to obtain the sources. > 2. I'm just the typical home user of obsd, so which should I use, cvs or > cvsup? > I use cvsync. cvsup is not written in C. ;) You can use cvs if you have copious bandwidth. If you are like me you have to either use cvsup or cvsync. > 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 ) > Some mirrors may be out of date. -Girish
