cvsup question

[Matthew Seaman]

Vasile C wrote:
> Can someone PLEASE answer my question without asking me more questions ?
> Is there a way to change the reconnect time or not ?

Not without modifying the source code to cvsup.

What I recommend you do is add the '-1' flag to your cvsup command line
 -- so cvsup will try once to pull down the updates and then exit.  Then
you can use a trivial bit of shell scripting to try again if the first
attempt failed, although you should try to cvsup from a different server
if you need to retry.

eg.

    #!/bin/sh

    CVSUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup
    CVSUPFLAGS=-1 -g -L2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
    CVSUPSERVERS='
        cvsup.xx.freebsd.org
        cvsup.yy.freebsd.org
        cvsup.zz.freebsd.org
        '
    OTHERCMDS=portsdb -Uu && portupgrade

    for $h in $CVSUPSERVERS ; do
	$CVSUP -h $h $CVSUPFLAGS && \
        $OTHERCMDS               && \
        break
    done

Note: untested code intended only as an outline of what you might do --
will need some work before suitable for serious use.
 
	Cheers,

	Matthew

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