On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > BTW: once a commit is done, are the files immediately avaiable via 
> > > CVSweb?
> > 
> > No. I don't know how often cvsweb is updated, sorry. 
> 
> Hmmm, that may be a sticking point.  FreshPorts assumes it can grab 
> the updated failes as soon as the commit message arrives.

Hum... No idea what to do there. 


> > Anoncvs is update every 6 hours or so. And I think for what you wand
> > (push-based updating), anoncvs would be best. At least the "cvs
> > rdiff" commands in the NetBSD commit mails can be used 1:1 to retrieve
> > patches. ;-)
> 
> Why would anoncvs be best?  At present, when a commmit message is 
> received, the code does a fetch http://www.freebsd.org/...etc and grabs 
> the latest file as needed.  This doesn't happen for every commit (only 
> those which involve the three files mentioned above).

I suggested anoncvs because the command to get the patch is already in the
source-changes mail. But i guess it doesn't matter if you run "lynx
-dump" or "cvs rdiff ... | patch" or something ;-)


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>