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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:16:37 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Andrew Boothman <andrew@sour.cream.org>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-Stable" <FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: CTM Release Generation - (Re: Stable and CTM) 
Message-ID:  <199810261416.QAA27648@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of " Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:03:53 GMT." <3.0.5.32.19981026130353.007b7e90@ice.cream.org> 
References:  <Your message of " Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:20:00 GMT." <3.0.5.32.19981025172000.007cf500@ice.cream.org> <Your message of " Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:54:50 %2B0100." <3.0.5.32.19981024225450.007af190@ice.cream.org> <3.0.5.32.19981024225450.007af190@ice.cream.org> <3.0.5.32.19981025172000.007cf500@ice.cream.org>   <3.0.5.32.19981026130353.007b7e90@ice.cream.org> 

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Andrew Boothman wrote:
> As the handbook states, there is no documentation on the creation of CTM
> deltas so could you enlighten me as to why multiple source trees are
> needed? Surely it is more or less a diff between the code as frozen on the
> release date, and the code as it stands today?

Yes. 1 copy for "release code", one copy for "current code". Multiply
that by N for our different releases, the CVS tree and the ports
collection, and things add up a tad.

> Failing that, which machine currently produces CTM deltas, and would be
> charged with creating the release deltas? Could this operation be moved to
> a machine with more space available?

If that is an offer for the machine, then yes, thank you.

M
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