Gentoo Development Guide
CVS to RSYNC
Changes made to the tree are propagated to the users in stages:
- Developer commits to CVS.
- Staging box syncs from CVS and generates the metadata cache.
-
rsync1syncs from the staging box. -
Public rsync servers sync from
rsync1. - Users sync from the public rsync servers.

Diagram showing CVS to RSYNC Propagation
The emerge-websync snapshot is made daily from the staging box.