Questions about the CVS build process

[Philip Blundell]

>> 1. Can a snapshot be converted into a CVS sandbox?  I ended up just
>>    doing a full cvs checkout, but at least one other large project
>>    (mozilla) recommends downloading the snapshot, unpacking it, then
>>    using cvs to grab only the deltas since then.  (They apparently
>>    simply package up the CVS subdirectories in the snapshot tar file,
>>    and it "just works."  I'm no CVS guru, so I'm probably missing
>>    something obvious).
>
>Probably.  I see no advantage to it though, you have to download the
>same amount of stuff ultimately.

According to the mozilla.org folks, it's considerably faster to download the 
bulk of the data by ftp than to let CVS check it all out.  (Given the 
usually-overloaded state of the sourceware machine I can well imagine this 
would be true for GCC.)

p.