Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien

giacomo> Stephen J. Turnbull writes: >> >> giacomo> what i'd _really_ like would be the option of giacomo> accessing an _installed_ tree of packages transparently giacomo> using cvs+emacs giacomo> as i'm a naive user of cvs, i'd happily be a naive user of rsync... giacomo> rsync/cvs difference it's about downloading whole changed files giacomo> instead of diffs, isn't it? giacomo> and would you (xemacs.org, i mean) set up a rsync server? i hope giacomo> so, as it will be a BIG gain for 56k downloaders,,, Hi Giacomo, you'll be glad to hear that the XEmacs CVS repository is already available via rsync, even though we have not documented the fact yet. Try rsync -auvz --delete sunsite.dk::xemacscvs DESTDIR I even maintain a mirror on my Windows laptop, which I update every evening from home, where I have a fast network connection :-) Caio, Adrian giacomo> ciao -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/