cvsup and non-arch specific files download prevention

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Mon Oct 3 08:15:18 PDT 2005


On Monday 03 October 2005 10:44, Gobbledegeek wrote:
> Hello
>        I'm upgrading from 4.7 to 5.4 using cvsup and I see that with
> src-all, files specific to s390, spark, ppc are also being downloaded.
> How can I prevent this from happening? I only want to download i386
> files...

Most of the files are platform independent. The overhead from all the non-i386 
platforms put together is only about 4%.

BTW I think ppc is parallel printer port support, not the powerPC platform.




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