On Sunday 24 August 2008 04:16:33 pm Chris Weyl wrote: > 2008/8/24 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi, > > > > I'm keeping only a partial checkout of the packages, e.g. the ones I'm > > maintaining. Now I'd like to be able to cvs up and have all updates > > flow in, but if I do so cvs will want to get all other thousand > > packages in. > > > > Until now I'm using a poor man's solution with a for loop and > > pushd/popd, but it's extremely slow due to login in for each package. > > > > Is there a more clever way to get cvs up running w/o pulling in all of > > the cvsroot? I could probably manually edit CVS/Entries, but this feels > > a bit dirty. What are other packagers doing? > > With respect to the ssh logins required for each cvs operation, I tend > to use opportunistic connection multiplexing. e.g., in my > ~/.ssh/config I have: > > ---- > ControlMaster auto > ControlPath ~/.ssh/sockets/%h_%p_%r_multi.sock > > Host cvs.fedora.redhat.com > Compression yes > CompressionLevel 3 > ---- > > And then I just do a "ssh -f -N cvs.fedora.redhat.com". It > authenticates me once, then just kicks around in the background until > I perform a network operation though CVS, at which point the "new" > connection is routed through the existing one. If I haven't forked > off a connection to c.f.r.c, no biggie, ssh just connects per usual. > > This won't help with selectively pulling down CVS, but it should make > each operation a smidge faster :-) > > -Chris That shouldnt work with the Makefiles. since they all use cvs.fedoraproject.org not the old legacy address :) Dennis
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