[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released!

[Ken Smith]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:31:05PM +0200, Cejka Rudolf wrote:

> Ken Smith wrote (2003/06/10):
> > Those all sound great, I've needed to sub-divide the rsync's myself
> 
> Because of big memory needs or because of what?
> Memory is not such a big problem for cvsup.

Memory is part of the overall "look at lots of stuff" problems rsync
slowly runs into.  But not everyone uses FreeBSD (yet :-) on their
mirror servers.  I see at least a few people on this list participating
in mirror lists for other things and know they're running on Linux
machines.  At the moment the machine I've got most of my mirror stuff
is a FreeBSD 5.1 machine but I can't use cvsup yet because it's a
Sparc...

[ Just curious, is anyone thinking about rewriting cvsup in something
other than Modula-3? ]

> It seems to me that it is more about updating policy (when update
> and what - it would need short cvsup runs with releases/packages
> before checking cvsupped source trees...), than about prepared cvsup
> collections. Anybody can do similar splitting by use of
> -i flag/refuse file with cvsup, but everything needs maintenance,
> including cvsup collections.

Growing pains from becoming more popular.  Someone needs to be willing
to do the work of organizing it all...

Things have come a long way from the days of CSRG distributions on
tape, the CSRG folks refusing to even hint when a release would
be finished and ready to ship, and Release Engineering was just a
small part of one person's job... :-)

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