cvsup is a tool that gets you the freebsd OS source cvs tree, and the
ports tree
So you get source to build the base OS, and you get a ports tree - a
bunch of software ported to bsd but the tree just has makefiles,
location + md5sum of various source tarballs, a list of OS specific patches
Prof. P. Sriram wrote:
but how useful would this be? i am not so desparate to mirror 'something'
while using up only a few gb. the mirroring documentation recommends
syncing the cvs tree every hour. the total size of the tree is given as
2.x gb. but, where is it? i do see a cvsup directory, but i dont think
that is THE cvs tree. this is why i suggested someone who uses freebsd
might be able to make better sense of the tree structure and recommend
which directories to mirror and which to skip so as to get a usable mirror
that is, say, less than 50gb in size.
