--- Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:31:30AM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote:
> > I have a 4.2 master system which I intend to use to quickly install
> new
> > systems. I have rebuilt the master system with updated sources;
> made
> > the release sets; and made tarballs of /usr/src. I installed a
> client
> > system with the sets over ftp. All is well.
> >
> > I want to eventually be able to update the client source code once
> in
> > the field so I unpacked the master tarballs. The trouble is that
> when
> > I performed a test update of this code there was a immense amount
> of
> > downloading taking place. This should not have been the case.
> >
> > Given that I may have committed a mistake with the creation of the
> > tarball is my method sound? It seems like a typical operation.
>
> What's an 'update' in this context? And exactly what was doing the
> downloading?
I use cvsup to update my sources (to STABLE):
*default release=cvs
*default tag=OPENBSD_4_2
*default host=cvsup.no.openbsd.org
*default base=/var/cvsup
*default prefix=/usr
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
OpenBSD-ports
OpenBSD-src
OpenBSD-xenocara
// juan
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