Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:03:37PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > The GCC and OpenBSD people depend on anoncvs as their main repo transport > > mechanism. > > (You can't transport a repo with cvs. OpenBSD infrastructure Not in the sense of CVSup, but for some defintion of "transport" yo

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Christian Weisgerber
David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - You need a pretty powerful machine to handle even, say, 4-6 clients > > at a time. Anonymous CVS is a hog like you wouldn't believe. > > I have to wonder if there are tricks one can use. No. Get a gig of memory, and put ~anoncvs/tmp on a memory

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Christian Weisgerber
David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the right mailing list to plead for more anoncvs mirrors? grappa.unix-ag.uni-kl.de provides anoncvs, among other services. (See http://.../ for a list.) However, - the box runs on OpenBSD, and since all three BSDs appear to use incompatible e

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > - You need a pretty powerful machine to handle even, say, 4-6 clients > at a time. Anonymous CVS is a hog like you wouldn't believe. > Don't try to use the machine for anything else if you're using it > for anonymous CVS. I ha

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > a few important points: Supporting SSH transport would be a good idea too. Kris PGP signature

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep, you are right. cvs writes the shadow stuff in /tmp. bleah. It does honor $TMPDIR and the "-T" option, though. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Baldwin
On 05-Sep-01 John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: >> > - You need an MFS filesystem with zillions of inodes, because >> > anonymous CVS just hammers the disk with tiny l

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41:13AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > > - You need an MFS filesystem with zillions of inodes, because > > > anonymous CVS ju

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > - You need an MFS filesystem with zillions of inodes, because > > anonymous CVS just hammers the disk with tiny lock files or state > > files. If they

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the right mailing list to plead for more anoncvs mirrors? > > I doubt that "pleading" would help, but "volunteering" might. :-) For occational

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the right mailing list to plead for more anoncvs mirrors? I doubt that "pleading" would help, but "volunteering" might. :-) I have (had?) been maintaining anoncvs.freebsd.org, but I don't have time for any others

more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:38:06AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > KSrinivasa Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For some reasons I was unable to checkout sources from cvs server of > > FreeBSD sources. I have been using anoncvs.FreeBSD.org to fetch the > >