Getting source by anoncvs

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:48:35PM -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote:

> I just failed at an attempt to pull down the latest sources
> via anoncvs using the instructions found at the URL below.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html

Looks like the docs have got a little out of synch with reality.  
 
> There does not seem to be a server named "anoncvs.FreeBSD.org".
> As I am located in the US, I don't want to use a server in
> another continent.
 
> The search results from here do not include anoncvs sites.
> http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php
> 
> This shouldn't be this difficult to track down.

Most FreeBSD users will use cvsup(1) to grab the latest sources -- it
actually makes a lot more efficient use of network bandwidth than
anonymous cvs.  There are at least 17 cvsup servers in the USA alone. 

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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