cvsup-mirror and my other local servers

Derrick MacPherson dmacpherson at mainframe.ca
Fri Apr 22 16:02:18 PDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:50 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Friday 22 April 2005 03:08 pm, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:27 -0700, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
> > > I have about 8 freebsd boxes, I am using one with the ports
> > > cvsup-mirror as the central cvs source for my other boxes, but when
> > > I point them at the master cvs server I get this error:
> > >
> > > cvsup -h cvs stable-supfile
> > > Connected to cvs
> > > Server message: Unknown collection "src-all"
> > > Skipping collection src-all/cvs
> > > Finished successfully
> > >
> > > and in the server logs:
> > > Apr 22 09:22:15 cvs cvsupd[24459]: +8 derrick at jupiter.mainframe.ca
> > > [SNAP_16_1h/17.0]
> > > Apr 22 09:22:15 cvs cvsupd[24459]: =8 Unknown collection "src-all"
> > > Apr 22 09:22:16 cvs cvsupd[24459]: -8 [0Kin+0Kout] Finished
> > > successfully
> > >
> > > I think i'm missing something quite small, but can't google what
> > > looks like a correct answer. I've not changed configuration much
> > > beyond the initial default installation config. Can someone point
> > > me in the right direction?
> > >
> > > cvs# uname -a
> > > FreeBSD cvs.mainframe.ca 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #5
> > >
> > > Also, if I'm to set up a cvs server for my 4.1X boxes, can i use
> > > the same server? if so how do I differentiate the 2 distros? And
> > > what about ports, are they the same for 4.x and 5.x?
> >
> > Any suggestions on this one? I'm heading off in a couple hours for
> > vacation for a week, and was hoping to have this working by the end
> > of the day.
> >
> 
> I have a mirror but all I had to do is replace the host in the cvsup 
> file with my local computer running cvsupd.


Thats what I did as well, using the /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ cvsup
files that i've always used. Is that wrong?



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