Comments on: git, mirror-master down

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:10:21 +0000

Thanks! That worked a treat.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:38:36 +0000

Bruce:

setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot

setenv CVS_RSH ssh

cd /usr

cvs -q checkout -rpkgsrc-2010Q4 -P pkgsrc

(Omit the -r option if you want pkgsrc head)

This is just picking it up through cvs. You can update later with ‘cvs up -dP’. When mirror-master comes back, you can delete /usr/pkgsrc and start using the make commands.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:39:42 +0000

Sorry I realise there are other hosts but they didn’t seem to work for me, hmm, more digging around I suppose.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:38:01 +0000

It looks like I got incredibly unlucky when installing DragonFly and trying to use pkgsrc, is there another way get pkgsrc on the machine easily, like another host for it?

Bruce

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:39:16 +0000

Apparently it having to move was a surprise to everyone, including the people taking care of it.

I think uther.dragonflybsd.org can work as a substitute – it’s in Europe, but is relatively speedy. Of course, if you’re mirroring, nothing new is going to show up for a few days, so you don’t have to worry about it too much.

By: Håkan

Håkan — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:41:14 +0000

I would have appreciated if a mail was sent out to the ftp-mirrors notifying about the master server going down a couple of days before server move.

Crazy things can happen