Re: [Evolution] CVS mirror?

[NotZed <notzed helixcode com>]

I've forwarded this to a more appropriate list, there's certainly
no point arguing about it in evolution, as we have little to do
with cvs's unscalability.


> There is at least one other problem with the round robin dns - that of
> synchronisation. I have updated twice on more than one occasion and had
> patches undone, files removed as they haven't reached all the servers yet.
>
>
> So a change occurs in the main cvs repository, it gets to mirror one. 
> I get it from mirror one. 
> I update again, this time from mirror two, which doesn't have the
> changes so cvs gets  confused and starts removing files and undoing the
> changes. 
>
> This would occur when trying to get something newly added to cvs.  
>
> I think it would be a lot better to just have the cvs mirrors list up on
> the webpage and let people choose which one to use. A geographical
> naming scheme would be nice...
>
> Also, I am sure that there are problems with at least some of the
> mirrors which are not solved because people just try again and get a different
> mirror... also because anyone who can fix the problem probably uses the
> main cvs repository for their own checkouts, so don't notice the problem.
> I get a lot of connection refused and cvs hanging with anoncvs - and this
> is normally "solved" by trying again and hopefully getting a different
> DNS record. 
>
> Anyway, hope this can be resolved, 
> Rob