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CVS repository incremental archives

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:23:00 GMT

To help people who want to keep a mirror of our CVS repository on their own machines, we’ve been publishing a cvs-repos tarball on our downloads pages which includes all of the repository (minus the CVSROOT directory that you have to create yourself). This tarball is automatically generated in the early hours of each morning (UK time).

However, this is a bit wasteful of bandwidth and painful for people to download and dearchive every time they want to update their local mirror. So to help out, we’ve introduced three smaller tarballs:

These are each rebuilt every morning but only include files which have changed in the last 24 hours, seven days or one month respectively. We hope this makes things much easier for keeping your mirrored source repositories up to date.

Note: due to the way they are built, the archives do include lots of empty directories (the whole directory structure) but none of the repository files unless they changed within the specified time period.

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ROOL at SE Show

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:39:00 GMT

On Saturday 20th October, the team from RISC OS Open will be attending the South East Show at Guildford College.

We are aiming to have our next batch of RISC OS sources released in time for the show. This will include more of the ‘core’ components such as the Printing System, Window Manager, Toolbox suite and the Font Manager.

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CVS access now available

Posted by Ben Avison Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:30:00 GMT

We have now opened up access to the CVS repository for the sources previously released in the Batch One source and patch tarballs. This means that for the first time, you now have access to the full changelogs for those components, and you can retrieve old versions back to those present in RISC OS 3.60.

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Patch update for Batch One release available

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 24 May 2007 17:12:00 GMT

A patch update, called patch-one.tar.bz2, is now available from the tarballs page. The aim of this first patch is to fix various issues in the Batch One release which should mean that you will be able to build every component which has been released up to this point.

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