On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:04:53AM -0500, Chris Richards wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Mar 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > The mirror, if it mirrored the "anoncvs" collection, would it not pick
> > > up everything under ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD-cvs/main, including
> > > pub/NetBSD-cvs/main/CVSROOT?
> > 
> > Yes, but anoncvs mirrors don't mirror from the sup/ftp/rsync machine.
> > They mirror directly from the anoncvs machine using rsync (no need to add
> > another indirection).
> 
> I'm missing something.  Why couldn't the required "CVSROOT/options"
> file be placed in the CVSROOT directory on the anoncvs machine?

It can. But mirror won't necesserely pick it, as they may not mirror
CVSROOT (and for cvs mirrors that mirror more than the NetBSD anoncvs, 
they can't).


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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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