"Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 29), Victor Sudakov said:
> Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > >Are you sure you understand me? I was talking about mirroring the whole
> > >repository with cvsup/cvsupd protocol, that's where the "Checksum
> > >mismatch -- will transfer entire file" error occurs.
> > 
> > Sorry, I missed the part of conversation about cvs mode in cvsup.  I
> > thought you were talking about cvs not working...
> 
> If subversion could be used to mirror whole repositories I will consider
> switching to it.

You can use the svnsync command to fetch a local copy of the FreeBSD svn
repository, but that will only cover the base source tree.  The ports tree
and web pages are still CVS-only, so you would need to keep using cvsup for
them.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com