gnats over rsync?

[Oliver Fromme]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > Pav Lucistnik wrote:
 > > > cvsup recently stopped working on -STABLE, it crashes on startup.
 > > > See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=124353 for details.
 > > >
 > > > So I'm looking for alternative way of getting a local GNATS copy.
 > > > Do we have /home/gnats somewhere on public rsync?
 > >
 > > Have you tried csup(1) instead of cvsup?  (/usr/bin/csup)
 > 
 > Does it support repository mode now? Mine doesn't.

Sorry I didn't realize that checkout mode won't work for
the gnats database.

However, there are some patches to add repository mode
to csup.  It's experimental, but it might be worth a try.

http://people.freebsd.org/~lulf/patches/csup/csup_2008-06-07_RELENG_7.diff
http://people.freebsd.org/~lulf/patches/csup/csup_2008-06-07_CURRENT.diff

For details please see this posting:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-June/024799.html

Best regards
   Oliver

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