cvsup: local

[fire jotawski]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Lowell Gilbert <
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> "fire jotawski" <jotawski at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > i have my small box, 10.3.1.25 ip,  that cvsup-ed files from repository
> into
> > it.  it use cvs-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ to collect files.
> > now that i want my other machine to cvsup 6.2-release source files from
> the
> > one mentioned above.
> >
> > my  trial was
> >
> > cvsupd -b /var/db -c sup
> >
> > for box, 10.3.1.25 ip,  and for other machine
> >
> > cvsup -g -L 2 -h 10.3.1.25 sup-file
> >
> > what i got was  'Server message: Unknown collection "src-all" ' message.
> > and later on
> >
> > Running
> > Skipping collection src-all/cvs
> > Skipping collection doc-all/cvs
> > Shutting down connection to server
> > Finished successfully
> >
> > very strange indeed.
> >
> > any helps and hints in setting cvsup server would highly be appreciated.
>
> To run cvsupd, you need the whole cvs tree for the collections you're
> handling, not just the checked-out files.
>
> Assuming these machines are attached by a protected network, a better
> approach (easier, anyway) would probably be to cvsup the changes to
> just one machine, then NFS-mount that machine's ports tree from the
> other machine.
>
> --
> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
>                http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/<http://be-well.ilk.org/%7Elowell/>
>


thanks indeed and apologized me for postponing answer to all of postings.
what about cvs then.  i did  this

cvs -d /home/ncvs checkout ports

and i got some thing quite similar to ports tree indeed.

thanks in advance for any informations

rgds,
psr


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