Re: [Pnet-developers] CVS download is slow

[Ram]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Gopal V wrote:

> >   can some one tell him how long does it takes to
> > download the package 
> > with CVS, and we can't use http proxy for cvs, is
> > this right?
> 
> CVS is slow ... but "-z3" makes it usable :)
yap ..already doing that...ever tried -z9 :D,i wonder what might be the 
maximum compression level that is supported
> 
> and you can cvs from savannah via an HTTP proxy
> provided you can run transconnect
> (transconnect.sf.net) and use savannah's port 443 for
> CVS (it's still cvs running on port 443 , not HTTPS).
seems interesting...downloading it..
> 
> > I heard that we can do something link ssh
> > masquerading to increase the 
> > speed of cvs downloads...any idea how to do that?
> 
> You can check out stuff via SSH if you have a
> developer id in Savannah and have updated the 
> SSH key in it.
> 
> But after the initial checkout, it's all downhill
> from there .... updates that is.
I hope so! Its been running since morning,anyway after installing gentoo 
for more then a week i thing i 
can wait for to finish too...
> 
> Gopal
Thanks 

Ram
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