It's not complicated to change your CVS root to a mirror. I usually just do
something like:

cd /usr/src
cp CVS/Root /tmp
emacs /tmp/Root to suit my needs
find . -type f -name Root -exec cp /tmp/Root {} \; 

I'd also like to point out to those who don't already know, but 
running an anoncvs server is not a trivial undertaking. I set up a mirror 
a while back because I thought it would be better to rsync once a day for 
all my systems, and those I manage for my customers, than to use
anoncvs repeatedly. Once I had it working, I considered making it a public
mirror until I saw how much load even a small number of clients placed on it.
[I may reconsider making it public if I can find a faster spare system.]

The people running the anoncvs server and the mirrors deserve large amounts 
or patience and understanding from those of us who benefit from their efforts
because what they do is harder than it might seem.

-- 
Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing
-----------


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:05:26 +0100
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no> wrote:

> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
> 
> > The server permits about 100 simultaneous connections.
> 
> ...but there are mirrors.  Could I ask you to explain the simplest way
> of changing from using cvs.netbsd.org, to using a mirror?  Will I have
> to write a script to recursively seek out and edit files in every CVS
> directory, or is there a way to make CVS do it for me?  Can I expect
> the change to be seamless, or could there be timestamp trouble that I
> should avoid by (temporarily, at least) running CVS with checksumming
> after the change?
> 
> I've been wanting to do this for a while, but haven't gotten around to
> investigating -- and a good explanation on current-users might do a
> lot of good for the poor root server...  :-)
> 
> -tih
> -- 
> Don't ascribe to stupidity what can be adequately explained by ignorance.