ideas

[Erik P. Skaalerud]

2) I think that it could be a good idea to include a package with (src tree + 
cvsup + cvsup.conf) in the ISO, so that you install it during the 
installation process and then you are ready to update the src tree with 
cvsup.


The idea was to keep the ISO size as small as possible. cvsup and cvsup.conf
are already in the image, you just need a network connection. Having a
tarball for download was suggested, but noone has done it yet. It's only 
interesting if you don't have access to the net with a cvsup capacable
machine.


I actually have set up nightly bz2 archive of /usr/src. It's aviable at 
http://dragon.BSDTech.com/DragonFly/src.tar.bz2

The archive will extract a "src" directory, therefore you should extract 
it into /usr.

Hope that it's useful, alot of people have been asking about this on 
IRC. As joerg said, the cvsup file is already present in 
/usr/share/examples/cvsup, you just need to install the cvsup package 
first (pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui), then extract the archive. Then you 
can run cvsup (at inital state) to run a complete checkout.

That server is also running as a cvsup mirror as you've might noticed on 
the download page, if anyone should wonder if it's trustwurthy or not.

- Erik Paulsen Skaalerud
erik(at)BSDTech.com