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<b><font face="ARIAL NARROW,HELVETICA">Obtaining XFS Linux files with CVSup</font></b></h2>

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CVSup is a very fast file distribution system.
For information on CVSup, see the
<a href="http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/">
CVSup Home Page</a>.
Linux binaries for CVSup can be found at
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/binaries/">
this web site</a>.

<p>
You can use CVSup as an alternative to CVS for
keeping current with the latest
development
changes. Standard CVS options such as "cvs log" and "cvs diff"
are not available with CVSup, but
<a href="http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.4-xfs/">
the cvsweb interface</a>
should provide most of that functionality.

<p>
The following shows a sample basic <tt>supfile</tt> configuration
file:

<p>
<pre><tt>
*default host=ftp.thebarn.com
*default base=.
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default prefix=/tmp/cvsupit
*default compress
linux-xfs
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Change <tt>prefix</tt> to a dest dir of your liking
then run
<tt>cvsup supfile</tt>.
Hit the start button once the window pops up.

<p>
The CVS tree itself may also be keep current with this method
by dropping the <tt>tag=.</tt> flag from <tt>supfile</tt>,
as in the following example:

<p>
<pre><tt>
*default host=ftp.thebarn.com
*default base=.
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default prefix=/tmp/cvsupit
*default compress
linux-xfs
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The XFS linux 2.5 tree supfile:

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<pre><tt>
*default host=ftp.thebarn.com
*default base=.
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default prefix=/tmp/cvsupit
*default compress
linux2.5-xfs
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