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Re: Snapshot, diffs and crap
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Snapshot, diffs and crap
- From: jhpb at sarto dot gaithersburg dot md dot us (Joseph H. Buehler)
- Date: 27 Jan 1998 22:27:18 -0500
- References: <January_27_1998_at_20_41_52_29516_Joseph_H._Buehler@altera>
mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump) writes:
> > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:31:00 +0100
> > From: Marc ESPIE <Marc.Espie@liafa.jussieu.fr>
> > To: egcs@cygnus.com
>
> > Right now, `playing' with egcs without a fast internet link is a
> > nightmare, as you mostly have to get one full archive every snapshot
> > to get something reliable...
>
> I did this for years using cvs on a 9600 link and then a 28.8 link.
> It is not a nightmare as you suggest. Bottom line, use cvs with -z9.
> It works, it reliable and is nearly as fast as it can be. Now, if you
> packet loss is >8%, your going to lose no matter what you try (except
> for a mirrow site that is closer).
Cvs is great for what I am doing: it has been taking maybe 5 or 10
minutes to sync my copy of the egcs source with cygnus.com if I do it
every couple days. This sure beats downloading .tar.gz files or
messing with diffs as far as I am concerned.
You do sometimes have to have some extra tools, though, since file
timestamps are not maintained in the cvs tree, and this can cause some
extra things to need to be regenerated that you normally don't have to
worry about in the .tar.gz files.
Joe Buehler