Subject: Re: cheating with sup
To: Paolo Losi <p.losi@lombardiacom.it>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/29/2000 10:34:14
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 09:55:22AM +0200, Paolo Losi wrote:
> The first time I run sup on fresh source install it takes 
> a long time (to much time :) ).
> Is it possible to cheat it and to create by hand 
> when.<rel-suffix> with a timestamp some time ahead the source
> tarballs timestamp and last.<rel-suffix> files with something
> like find /usr/src?

This should be possible. when.<rel-suffix> just contains the date in the Unix
format, that is, the number of seconds since Junuary, 1st 1970 0:00 GMT.

> does there exsists a cvsup server as well?

Not officially supported by NetBSD but I think there's one or 2 around here.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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