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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:2918 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:860 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!netnews From: sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com (Bill Sommerfeld) Subject: Re: [NetBSD] changes & bugs fixed since 0.8... Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News) Message-ID: <SOMMERFELD.93Jun7144823@blatt.apollo.hp.com> In-Reply-To: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 6 Jun 93 09:57:20 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 18:43:05 GMT Lines: 28 References: <CGD.93Jun5140043@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1usrrp$8kn@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <CGD.93Jun6095720@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Nntp-Posting-Host: snarfblatt.ch.apollo.hp.com Organization: Hewlett Packard In article <CGD.93Jun6095720@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: SUP is CMU's "software update protocol" or something like that. it's this nice, automated way to get only changed files in various user-choosable distribution sets... i can't do it justice, but the announcement that'll be posted in a few days will do better... the one drawback: only works if you're on the 'net... Here's some unsolicited praise for Sup: Though all it needs is a single TCP connection, so, if you're stuck behind a non-routing firewall (like I am, for all practical purposes), you can set up a full-duplex "TCP forwarder" on the firewall and it will Just Work. The project I'm working on uses SUP extensively; it appears to work just fine from the client point of view; very little fuss & muss, though we've just been using it to update a "shadow" copy of a source tree, and not a currently running system.. - Bill