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From: Robert Watson <rwatson@Fre...>
Subject: Plan 9 source tarballs or cvsup?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:25:02 +0100 (BST)


Dear Plan9er's,

For the last couple of years, I've been running a kernel source code 
reference, fxr.watson.org, that contains the kernel sources of a number of 
operating systems (initially FreeBSD and Linux, now also many other BSD's, 
Open Solaris, Darwin, etc).  I did this because I wanted a place I could go to 
easily compare design approaches and implementations of kernels; however, it 
appears I now have a pretty large number of regular visitors.

I've had a number of requests to include Plan 9 source on the site, but have 
always stalled in adding it when reaching a somewhat critical question: how to 
get the source code?  I must be approaching this the wrong way!  I've perused 
the cm.bell-labs.com wiki a moderate amount, and discovered it's easy to 
download a compiled ISO, to peruse the source online, or to find directions 
for downloading the source using integrated Plan 9 tools.  I've been having 
trouble finding a way to automatically update a local copy of the source on a 
FreeBSD box (i.e., cvs cvsup, anonymous cvs, rsync, ..), which is what I need 
in order to put it up on the web site.  That or a simple source tarball I can 
update once in a while.

I'm probably being stupid, and have missed the patently obvious, and a pointer 
at that obvious thing would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson