syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

[Julien Gabel]

>>> i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm
>>> behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill.

>> Just for information, why is CTM an "overkill"?  I use it at work for
>> the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback
>> (yet...).

> Just a thought here.  Is ssh blocked? :)  You have a machine on the
> outside that you trust?  You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point
> cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not?

Yes, ssh is blocked.  We can just use the web and ftp via a farm of three
proxies, which are able to resolve names on the Net.  We can't even do that
from our workstations or internal servers.  So...

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