Subject: Re: What is needed to have a "CVS mirror"?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: sudog <sudog@sudog.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/30/2002 11:51:29
On Monday 05 August 2002 09:45, Michael Core wrote:
> kgc@zhwin.ch (Christoph Kaegi) wrote:
> 
> > I recently started upgrading my NetBSD machines from CVS.
> > As I have an increasing number of those around, I would
> > like to have only one of them sync with anoncvs.netbsd.org
> > and then have all the others sync to this machine.
> > 
> > What would I have to do, to make this work?
> 
> cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/cvsup
> make install
> man cvsup

===> Registering installation for cvsup-16.1.d
*** WARNING: This package (cvsup-16.1.d) has a security vulnerability ***
cvsup<=16.1.d           remote-root-shell       
http://www.pine.nl/advisories/pine-cert-20020601.html
*** WARNING: You are strongly advised to deinstall cvsup-16.1.d now ***

...

:douglas:11:45:26 /usr/pkgsrc/devel/cvsup# cvs -d 
":pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot" -z 5 update -d -P
cvs server: Updating .
cvs server: Updating files
cvs server: Updating pkg
:douglas:11:45:46 /usr/pkgsrc/devel/cvsup# 

...is there a better way to mirror the complete repository without nailing the 
NetBSD servers with regular (and obnoxious) ftp downloads?

Is using sup to keep up on the whole repository going to be okay?