misc/131438: Add csup to Periodic

[Steven Kreuzer]

The following reply was made to PR conf/131438; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at exit2shell.com>
To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/131438: Add csup to Periodic
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:47:55 -0500

 On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
 
 > Hello Steven,
 >
 > [...]
 >>> Description:
 >>
 >> Rather then run csup each night to update src or ports via an entry
 >> in roots crontab I figured it would be cleaner to write a script and
 >> add it to periodic so that you can specify a csup file and have its
 >> output sent to you via email with the rest of the daily periodic
 >> scripts
 >>
 >> The attached patch adds support for that but sets it to off by  
 >> default.
 >
 > While I like the idea I should note this will hurt our cvsup
 > infrastructure world wide.  periodic(8) runs at the same time (3am) on
 > all hosts in the same time zone.  That means it'll runs 600.csup at
 > same time with some deviation depending of the execution time of the
 > previous daily scripts and thus overload local cvsup mirrors.
 
 Hi Maxim-
 
 Thats a pretty good point that I didn't take into consideration when I  
 was writing this.
 You can close this PR.
 
 Thanks
 
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