cpdup into base?
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 21 16:44:22 PDT 2007
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> <blah>
> I just set up a intermediate backup server and copied some view hundred
> Gig'bytes in a ssh session. Then it came to my mind that I'm on a dialup
> line which get's cut at day change, so if my last 76G transfer wouldn't
> finish before I had to repeat it.
> My first fault was not to use "screen", but like I wrote it's a
> improvised intermediate server.
> Now if I had cpdup this wasn't a big problem...
> Of course there's 'pkg_add -r', but I'm using -current and I don't know
> if there's a working package, nor that it's fetchable.
> </blah>
>
> Is there anything against merging cpdup into base?
Yep, it's not required. Your objection about not knowing whether there
is a working package is silly since it's so easily answered.
Kris
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