Re: rsync to anoncvs.NetBSD.org::cvsroot missing dirs?

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost> wrote:
> I've been rsyncing against anoncvs (and/or mirrors) for ~years, without
> issues. I've just noticed build issues, and tracked it down to the
> following dirs missing from my rsync of the anoncvs repo:
>
> src/external/gpl3/gcc.old
> src/external/gpl3/gdb.old
>
> Running a diff between a cvs checkout of the local rsync repo and a
> cvs checkout direct from anoncvs seems to show quite a lot of stuff
> missing from the rsync'ed repo (1854 dirs/files).
> Permissions issue, perhaps?
>
> FYI: I'm currently rsyncing against anoncvs.NetBSD.org::cvsroot
> I assume this is still a somewhat supported method of keeping up
> to date sources?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Paul Ripke
> "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds
>  discuss people."
> -- Disputed: Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. 1948.


I'm not sure if it's happened yet but a lot of our systems (anoncvs
included) are migrating.

I'm confident things will clear up over the next little bit.