how to mirror cvs or svn with rsync

[Nikolay Tychina]

Well, reference machine doesn't even run FreeBSD. I need to mirror src (say,
checkout of RELENG_8).
Another problem is that only rsync may be used on the reference machine. :)


2009/11/14 cpghost <cpghost at cordula.ws>

> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 09:38:11PM +0300, Nikolay Tychina wrote:
> > Having a mirror accessible from our network for free would help users to
> get
> > sources for free.
> > Incoming traffic from Internet costs money, that's problem.
>
> So you need to mirror /usr/src, and not the whole repository with
> all its history, right?
>
> What I do here is to csup /usr/src on one reference machine every now
> and then, and then distribute that directory with rsync to all other
> 500+ machines inside.
>
> -cpghost.
>
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