Re: ppc @ ppc.bitkeeper.com

We're working getting BK/web up and we are also making changes so that you'll
be able to do this:

        bk clone http://ppc.bitkeeper.com/linuxppc_2_4

which will work through firewalls.

*sigh*

Encouraging people to violate security?

I guess everybody does it. Let's just get rid of all other ports.
Then we can all have stateful app-level firewalls to stop this
sort of hack. Admins can get regular updates, just like with their
anti-virus and Internet filter software. :-/

While the machine we have has a gig of ram and a fast cpu, and a 1.5Mbit
net connection, we're really prefer that you cloned once and pulled many
times rather than recloning all the time.  Pulling uses tiny amounts of
bandwidth, we can barely detect it, but cloning burns about 35MBytes of
bandwidth.  It's worth getting a copy of BK even if you don't use BK
because it can transfer the data faster than ftp/rsync/whatever because
it already knows what has been changed.  A trivial mirroring command:

        # one time only
        bk clone bk://ppc.bitkeeper.com:5000 linuxppc_2_4

        # Nightly
        cd linuxppc_2_4
        bk pull
        rm -rf ../linuxppc_2_4.export
        bk export . ../linuxppc_2_4.export

bzip2 -dc patches-are-better.bz2 | patch -p1 -E -s

I know it doesn't push BitKeeper, but patches are certainly fine for
bandwidth problems. That is, if you leave off the header crud that
BitKeeper likes to create. I think you'd save bandwidth actually.

I'm not even sure if I'm allowed to use BitKeeper. I'm doing some
work with the Linux kernel, but I can't make it public yet and
getting the paid license would be quite a pain. (while the actual
dollar amount isn't likely an issue, getting a purchase order
and MIS approval would be an awkward procedure -- around here
ClearCase rules)


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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:13:00PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

bzip2 -dc patches-are-better.bz2 | patch -p1 -E -s

Troy B. wrote a script that makes patches of the BK tree to the
latest Linus tree merged in.  I should go and bug him about moving
that over to source.mvista.com or something :)
They're currently at http://penguinppc.org/~hozer/patches, iirc

--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

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