cvsup first time - connection refused

[Mel]

On Monday 17 November 2008 20:48:20 Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:53:02PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> writes:
> > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names
> > >> from this list:
> > >>
> > >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTE
> > >>R-SGML-MIRRORS-IL-CVSUP
> > >>
> > >> I get a Connection refused error.
> > >>
> > >> Help..
> > >
> > > First, you should run csup (which is now part of the base system)
> > > instead of the cvsup port.
> >
> > That won't work at all with the standard cvs-supfile, which uses CVS
> > mode.
>
> And what mode does csup use that is different?

check-out only, for the moment. The csup author already has posted work 
on -hackers for repo-copy mode a few months back.

The OP mentions cvs-supfile, which 
suggests /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile. This supfile repo copies the 
entire FreeBSD cvs repository. To get anything useful, it needs to be checked 
out again, using cvs.
This is mainly used for mirroring and if you want to get different branches to 
a machine in one download, maintain local patches etc.
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.