Re: keeping pkgsrc up to date

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :What do you use to keep your pkgsrc tree up to date?
> :Anonymous cvs does work but is pretty slow.
> :The cvsup mirrors seem to be rather busy.
> :I used the mercurial repo at
> :http://hg.scode.org/mirror/pkgsrc
> :for some time, but it seems to be down now.
> :
> : Johannes
>
>      I do an overnight anoncvs update.  It isn't the most efficient
>      way to do it but I don't know of any other official way to do it.

I used to use cvsup from one of the NetBSD mirror sites, but I finally
discovered that the cvsup mirrors for pkgsrc just didn't seem to update
properly, so I switched back to anoncvs and the problem disappeared.
Slower, but safer.