Update the src via HTTP?

Bob Bishop rb at gid.co.uk
Thu Mar 25 00:09:15 PST 2004


At 07:45 25/03/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:55:30AM +0000, Bob Bishop wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > At 05:46 25/03/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > >On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:04:00AM +0530, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
> > >> All,
> > >>
> > >>    I am behind the Firewall. Only port 80 is open. Is there any way to
> > >> update the Source
> > >> Via HTTP?
> > >
> > >Only by downloading an entirely new copy.  Read the documentation
> > >about ctm though (source code updates via email).
> >
> > Well, if you can use ftp then according to
> > http://www.uk.freebsd.org/support.html#cvs
> > you should be able to "mirror the CVS repository from
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/FreeBSD-CVS". However, that
> > directory appears to be empty - maybe the web page should be fixed.
>
>Maybe you should submit a PR :)

Done already. I just noticed that the directory is indeed not empty on 
ftp1.freebsd.org for instance. So hunt arround the mirrors...

>Kris


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