Subject: Re: rsync question
From: Sam Moore (samiwas@macconnect.com)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 09:50:15 MST
On 11/10/00 at 1:11 AM, hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hollis R Blanchard) wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Sam Moore wrote:
>
> > http://linuxppc.org/usr/xf4/
>
> As a side note, I'd really appreciate it (personally) if you would use
> penguinppc.org. linuxppc.org is owned and operated by LinuxPPC Inc
> (ostensibly "volunteers from the community"), and they have copied all of
> penguinppc.org's files without attributing the content to its original
> authors. As a user I ask you not to support such practices.
Ah - thanks for clarifying that. penguinppc.org it is ;-)
>
> Also, now that they're trying to maintain their own site, penguinppc.org
> is updated far more frequently than linuxppc.org.
>
> So let's pretend you said http://penguinppc.org/usr/xf4/ ;)
>
> > Unfortunately I'm having trouble with rsync, to wit:
> > I've created a directory xfree86 into which to rsync the source tree, per
> > instructions. However when I do
> > rsync -arvz penguinppc.org::xfree86-pmac
> > it downloads a list of files, but no actual files.
>
> That's correct. If you look carefully at that page, you'll notice that the
> complete line is:
> rsync -arvz penguinppc.org::xfree86-pmac .
> compare that to what you have:
> rsync -arvz penguinppc.org::xfree86-pmac
My mistake - I assumed the trailing period was spurious, not being too familiar
with the syntax for rsync.
>
> This is actually a common error which could be better explained; I'll go
> clarify that right now.
While you're in there... there's an instruction a little further down about
changing the line about chipsets, and I quote:
5.To build the entire XFree86 package with the new source first make the
following change:
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@
+++ xc/config/cf/xfree86.cf Mon Jul 31
15:08:05 2000
- trident
chips fbdev \
+ trident
chips fbdev ati imstt tdfx \
Perhaps it would be helpful to suggest that this can be done with a text editor?
I did it in vi, as I didn't immediately grasp what the @@ and +++ was all about.
Obviously I need to educate myself better, but I'm sure there are plenty of
other beginners out there ;-)
Anyway thanks for all these excellent instructions.
Tally-ho ;-)
>
> -Hollis
>
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