From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263539AbTDTHUR (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2003 03:20:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263540AbTDTHUR (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2003 03:20:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.13]:33714 "EHLO smtp1.actcom.net.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263539AbTDTHUQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2003 03:20:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA24CF8.5080609@shemesh.biz> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 10:32:08 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Collins CC: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel Subject: Re: BK->CVS, kernel.bkbits.net References: <20030417162723.GA29380@work.bitmover.com> <20030420013440.GG2528@phunnypharm.org> In-Reply-To: <20030420013440.GG2528@phunnypharm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ben Collins wrote: >I hate asking this on top of the work you already provide, but would it >be possible to allow rsync access to the repo itself? I have atleast 6 >computers on my LAN where I keep source trees (2.4 and 2.5), and it >would be much less b/w on my metered T1 and on your link aswell if I >could rsync one main "mirror" of the cvs repo and then point all my >machines at it. > There is a better tool (for this particular task), called "cvsup". It does a wonderful job of keeping cvs repositories in synch. I realize I just asked for a THIRD tool, so it should only go in if the admins are willing to take care of it. The idea is that it uses the full duplexity of the channel to get client side information about the repository on that end while downloading changes, thus increasing the effective bandwidth. It only falls back to rsynch if CVS repository specific updates are not possible. I use it on the Wine repository, and it does, indeed, work very efficiently. On the negative side - as far as I could tell, neither RedHat nor Mandrake carry it as a standard package (Debian does, at least in unstable). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/