syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.
Julien Gabel
jpeg at thilelli.net
Fri May 20 06:18:36 PDT 2005
>>> i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm
>>> behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill.
>> Just for information, why is CTM an "overkill"? I use it at work for
>> the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback
>> (yet...).
> Just a thought here. Is ssh blocked? :) You have a machine on the
> outside that you trust? You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point
> cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not?
Yes, ssh is blocked. We can just use the web and ftp via a farm of three
proxies, which are able to resolve names on the Net. We can't even do that
from our workstations or internal servers. So...
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-jpeg.
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