Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:38:12 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Paul Seniura <pdseniura@techie.com> Cc: ctm-announce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: just wondering, will it take much longer? re: CTM down Message-ID: <40182BC4.9020502@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040128140755.C809C5C1E@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> References: <40155DDD.70205@math.missouri.edu> <20040128140755.C809C5C1E@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us>
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It should be up again in a hour or so. Since I had to reconstruct a lot of it, I would appreciate messages from people as to whether the deltas apply cleanly or not (I did do some testing myself, but you never know). Paul Seniura wrote: >>CTM is in the process of being put onto a new computer. I made some bad >>mistakes in the upgrade process (OK I ran rsync the wrong way round!) >>and it is going to take me a while to fix. Sorry about that. >> >>Stephen > > > > Hi, > > I was out-of-pocket yesterday, saw your msg just now. > > I'm one of those who need to stay -Current for a port I volunteered to maintain, net/tn3270. It's the nature of that beast to copy parts of /usr/src then patch them. > > I can't convince our political firewall ppl to open it up for CVSup, so I'm manually tracking -Current thru the CTM FTP site. > > They gave me a surplused PC so slow that it can take days to compile -Current changes (for ex. ~6 hours for buildworld, ~48 hours for OpenOffice). To get some speed, I'm tweaking the gcc options for the p2 that is in this PC. And I select/enable knobs that aren't in the prebuilt packages. > > I'm afraid of lagging too much behind, esp. updates for the ports already installed. > > Thank you very much for your help and for maintaining the CTM system. I know it's one of those things we take for granted until it is missed. ;) > > > -- Paul Seniura > System Specialist > State of Okla. D.O.T. > > >
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