Re: CVSup netbsd-distrib collection set?

["Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp%spiritual-machines.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:52 -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> All:
> 
>    Is there a cvsup "root" mirror that has the "NetBSD-distrib" collection 
> set available?  It doesn't seem like it is included in the jumbo "netbsd" 
> collection.
> 

Just a quick update from Thursday:

 I found that http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup notes:

 "Please note that the "anoncvs" collection has been removed.  If you
  want to mirror the NetBSD CVS repository you should use the rsync
  service on anoncvs.NetBSD.org instead."

I guess that's where I went wrong:

 - FreeBSD uses cvsup as the primary distribution method of mirroring
   the AnoncCVS repository, including a collection to help 
   re-distribute
 
 - NetBSD uses rsync or sup as the primary medium (although some notes
   and documentation suggest a FreeBSD-like cvsup infrastructure) (*)

~BAS

*: Documentation at: http://cvsup.uk.netbsd.org/NetBSD-sup
 is 404 not found -- trying to contact the cvsup.uk.* maintainer
 regarding the source of his cvsupd(8) server configuration files.
  


> Neither are the contents of CVSROOT-*
> 
> I'm learning this system in real time.  FreeBSD seems to distribute a 
> "distrib.self" as well, containing a second set of sup client delta scans 
> for use "exclusively by a CVSUp Mirror", but the contents of 
> sup/*/releases seem have prefix= and keywordprefix= explicitly poining to 
> /home/ncvs (which is kind of ugly)
> 
> Perhaps on he NetBSD side, most of the CVSup mirrors are originating from 
> sup or rsync instead?
> 
> Thanks,
>    ~BAS