Subject: Re: Pkgsrc error
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/06/2002 22:16:49
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:32:06PM -0500, Andy Ball wrote:

> At the office I have access to the Internet via DSL.  At home I only
> have an analog phone line and a dial-up service that wouldn't maintain
> a connection long enough for CVS to be an option.  I was able to down-
> load pkgsrc at the office and carry it home on a Zip disk.  The
> dial-up connection stays up long enough to fetch the packages I want.

maybe rsync would work well over a dial-up line?

and ssh-CVS is a lot faster than pserver...  (I haven't a clue as to
why.  you would think it would be the other way around.)

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