Re: cvs mirroring

Olivier Galibert, <galibert(a)pobox.com&gt; wrote: The FreeBSD and OpenBSD projects use ctm to distribute updates for the source and even the cvs repository. Ctm is reliable and well tested. It makes a file called 'delta', which contains the changes in a directory tree since its last run, gzip's it and mails it out, preferrably to a mailing list. Run by cron daily it is sort of "set up and forget", as long as diskspace is sufficient. :) The only thing that needs to be done manually, is to supply a new snapshot tar.gz-file of the ctm target directory every few month. It is needed by new users to bootstrap. After a new user subscribed to the ctm-list and received the first delta, he would ftp the snapshot file and the delta files made between the one he had in the mail and this snapshot. If the cvs repository is distributed by ctm, people can use cvs locally with all its features, without need for a leased line. This is optimal for (us) poor modem users... Ctm is written in C, not in Modula as CVSup. It is a good idea to mail out the log messages of the cvs commits to a mailing list. People can track the development easily, and know when to update their local sources. See - http://www.openbsd.org/ctm.html - The FreeBSD Handbook for more. -hgw