Re: Change your rsync address(es)

[email protected] (karl williamson) Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:13:53 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters,perl.daily-build,perl.daily-build.reports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:24:48 +0100, "H.Merijn Brand"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Now that perl VCS has moved from perforce to git, the rsync address
>> should also change. Note that the old address will still work, but it
>> will have a considerable delay, as that will rsync itself from the new
>> address
>>
>> For all your _config files, you will have to change the lines that look
>> like
>>
>>     "source"  => "public.activestate.com::perl-current",
>>
>> to
>>
>>     "source"  => "perl5.git.perl.or::perl-current",
>                                      ^
> 
> perl5.git.perl.org
> 
> terribly sorry there
> 
Two things:  when I do as above using rsync, I merely get a list of the 
valid perl sources.  If I change the :: to a slash, I actually get the 
files.  However, .patch contains
"blead 20081219.17:05:08 b1fccde5a5d6d9eece3886ce5cb9dc7b9027bee2"
which doesn't compile well.