Re: Minor buildfarm HOWTO comment

Tom Lane wrote:

>BTW, I noticed that the buildfarm HOWTO says
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>>... Finally, I set up a
>>cron job on the mirror machine to update the mirror every 15 minutes - this
>>should not be too big a deal, as CVSup is extremely efficient, and even
>>doing this so frequently should not incur a lot of bandwidth use.
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>AFAIK the Postgres anonymous-CVS server is only updated from the master
>once an hour, and so there is no point in CVSup'ing from it more than
>once an hour.
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>If you are a committer with direct access to the master CVS server then
>maybe there's some point in CVSup'ing your local copy every 15 minutes,
>but I think the HOWTO shouldn't recommend that.
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I was told, quite possibly incorrectly, and I forget by whom, that the 1
hour delay didn't apply to CVSup.

>(CVS mirrors used only for buildfarm purposes should probably mirror the
>slave CVS server anyway, even if you have access rights to the master
>server, on grounds of security and bandwidth conservation ...)
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I will change it.

cheers

andrew