Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:10:18 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@sour.cream.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Subject: Re: CTM Release Generation - (Re: Stable and CTM) Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981026191018.007ad150@ice.cream.org> In-Reply-To: <199810261308.OAA02338@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199810261416.QAA27648@gratis.grondar.za>
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At 14:08 26/10/98 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >i am just jumping in on the middle of a discussion so apologies if i >say stupid things... but isn't everything one needs in the CVS >repository so _in theory_ at least one could ask cvs, file by file, to >produce the differences without having to replicate things ? And, being >things stored in cvs, the deltas from one version to the other of the >same file are stored in a reasonable compact way... > >... where is the code ? oh yes the code... :-) I presumed that this is how deltas are currently created. As Luigi points out it would certainly reduce the disk space requirement. Wouldn't the code the produces deltas currently (by checking what's changed since the last delta) be fairly easily adapted to produce the release deltas (by checking what's changed since the last release)? I cannot really do such devlopment myself, because I'm very new to unix and to FreeBSD and I don't know enough to be able to write such code. (But I know enough to know what I want :-). Does anyone else reading have the expertise/time to take this on? (Assuming that this is all that's needed) Thanks -- Andrew Boothman <andrew@sour.cream.org> http://sour.cream.org PGP Key Available From Public Servers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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