Re: ideas

["Erik P. Skaalerud" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 2) I think that it could be a good idea to include a package with (src tree + 
> > cvsup + cvsup.conf) in the ISO, so that you install it during the 
> > installation process and then you are ready to update the src tree with 
> > cvsup.
>
>
> The idea was to keep the ISO size as small as possible. cvsup and cvsup.conf
> are already in the image, you just need a network connection. Having a
> tarball for download was suggested, but noone has done it yet. It's only 
> interesting if you don't have access to the net with a cvsup capacable
> machine.


I actually have set up nightly bz2 archive of /usr/src. It's aviable at 
http://dragon.BSDTech.com/DragonFly/src.tar.bz2

The archive will extract a "src" directory, therefore you should extract 
it into /usr.

Hope that it's useful, alot of people have been asking about this on 
IRC. As joerg said, the cvsup file is already present in 
/usr/share/examples/cvsup, you just need to install the cvsup package 
first (pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui), then extract the archive. Then you 
can run cvsup (at inital state) to run a complete checkout.

That server is also running as a cvsup mirror as you've might noticed on 
the download page, if anyone should wonder if it's trustwurthy or not.

- Erik Paulsen Skaalerud
erik(at)BSDTech.com