Nice Idea. I was thinking the same a few weeks ago, for src.


2006/10/9, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>:
> Hello,
>
> starting now I am maintaining a Mercurial mirror of the pkgsrc repository
> at:
>
>    http://hg.scode.org/mirror/pkgsrc
>
> For those unfamiliar with Mercurial, reasons why one might want to use it
> include:
>
> * "hg pull && hg update" completes in a matter of seconds instead of minutes
> or even hours for "cvs update". Should to do even on slow links aswell.
> Disregarding initial checkout of course.
>
> * Anyone can trivially create private branches with a minimum of fuss.
>
> For now the mirror is updated daily. It is kept in synch with cvs20hg
> (wip/cvs20hg).
>
> Quickstart:
>
>    * Install devel/mercurial
>    * hg clone http://hg.scode.org/mirror/pkgsrc
>    * followed by "hg pull && hg update" at any time to update the tree
>
> --
> / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB
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