Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:07:17 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@vector.jhs.local> To: paul@netcraft.co.uk Cc: phk@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ctm-cvs Message-ID: <199601142307.AAA16812@vector.jhs.local> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jan 1996 21:02:58 GMT." <199601142102.VAA02924@originat.demon.co.uk>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Paul Richards <paul@originat.demon.co.uk> > > In reply to Julian Stacey jhs@freebsd.org who said > > > > Hi Poul-Henning, CC current, > > > > A CTM question if I may: > > Is there a particular reason for cvs-cur.1500A.gz to be a mega size ctm > > patch ? Is it perhaps that way because its easier for you to maintain/app - end ? > > I'm getting towards the end of something like a 16 hour download of this > file and I've only got one phone line to the house so the people I share > with aren't happy :-) > > Can they be split in some way so that you can download it in batches, I could > have grabbed a chunk each night then when people have gone to bed. Apart > from that, I'm constantly on edge in case freefall drops the connection and > 16 hours is wasted..... > > Not that I'm ever going to do this again now I'm almost in sync but other > people will run into this problem when they need to bootstrap ctm. > Addendum to my earlier `stage site dd' sugestion: Of course, dd won't be available to some folk on remote staging sites, so splitting would help them (though of course unfortunately causing a refetch on well connected sites that have already auto.-mirrored the 40Meg) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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