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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: cvsup with RedHat 5.1
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date:       1998-11-17 10:55:41
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Logi Ragnarsson wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >I'm trying to start to use cvsup to update my local copy of KDE, especially
> >to update the pot and po files. I've had no success. I've done the following:
> 
> >bash$ cvsup -g -e -L2 cvsup.kde
> >Parsing supfile "cvsup.kde"
> >Looking up address of cvs.kde.org
> >Connecting to cvs.kde.org
> >Connected to cvs.kde.org
> 
> I have edxactly the same problem, but on Debian 2.0.
> 
> It looks to me like the cvs server is overloaded. If I wait long enough it will
> sometimes say that too many people are connected and that it will try again in
> 5 minutes.
The server is not overloaded. I have never seen him with more then 0.8
and that
was, when three netscapes died and idled in the background ;)

The cvsupd software is very buggy, so it doesn't allow more than some
connections
even if you set more.
> 
> Last night it finally worked for a short while and started checking out some
> files. However, before long it died with an EOF from server erroor message and
> I finally gave up and started downloading the snapshots.
> 
> Is the system really so overloaded as to be useless?
> 
> Is using straight anonymous cvs any better? (what's the CVSROOT string?)
> 
> Are there diff files for the snapshot files? I don't realy need an update more
> than twice a month, but don't like downloading the whole thing every time
> through my modem. Especially since I only get about 1Kb/s from ftp.kde.org
There are diff files as well.
BTW: there are mirrors.

Greetings, Stephan

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