On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:34:54PM +0100, Aiko Barz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:17:13PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > I do not want to get the cvs-repository itself. I simply would like to
> > > use "rsync" and "make". I don't want to know anything about the cvs,
> > > subversion or whatever-structure behind.
> > 
> > pkgsrc-current is available from /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/
> > I'm not aware of any checked out pkgsrc-2004Q4 tree.
> > But CVS isn't that difficult, you just need:
> > setenv CVS_RSH ssh (or export CVS_RSH=ssh depending on your shell)
> > cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co -P pkgsrc
> > for pkgsrc-current or
> > cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co -P -r pkgsrc-2004Q4 pkgsrc
> > for the stable pkgsrc.
> 
> That's the way, I'm doing it right now. I guess, it's gentoo's fault.
> You do "emerge --sync", gentoo selects the rsync-mirror randomly
> and updates "/usr/portage". This directory is immediately useable.
> (/usr/portage includes stable/unstable and several stages in between.)
> 
> The developers gpg-signatures garantee, that you get, what you want.
> Call me lazy, but I think, that this technique could improve NetBSD
> very much.

We could do a emerge --sync wrapper around CVS. The CVS server key
garantee the data integrity.

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