cvs -d fails

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:45:09PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:17:29PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:23:22PM +0200, christian hennig wrote:
> > > i install 1.6 on my laptop, all is fine. But now i try:
> > >  # cd /usr/
> > >  # cvs -d anoncvs at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot co pkgsrc
> > > but i get a time out. 
> > 
> > Try
> > # cvs -d pserver:anoncvs at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot co pkgsrc
> 
> Oops, missing a colon before "pserver" keyword...
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot co pkgsrc
> 
> But apparently it accepts a password-less ssh connection too,
> as written in HowToPkgsrc page in our wiki.  Not sure if it's
> preferred way to fetch pkgsrc source, though.

For the initial setup, the tarball is often a lot faster.
Otherwise using a local mirror can be a better idea as well.
W.r.t. CVS_RSH=ssh, that's the default in our cvs already.

Joerg