From owner-ctm-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 13:38:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ctm-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA4E16A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:38:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccmmhc02.asp.att.net (sccmmhc02.asp.att.net [204.127.203.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A789143D1F for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:38:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (12-216-240-169.client.mchsi.com[12.216.240.169]) by sccmmhc02.asp.att.net (sccmmhc02) with ESMTP id <20040128213820mm200e7uefe>; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:38:20 +0000 Message-ID: <40182BC4.9020502@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:38:12 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Seniura References: <40155DDD.70205@math.missouri.edu> <20040128140755.C809C5C1E@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> In-Reply-To: <20040128140755.C809C5C1E@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ctm-announce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: just wondering, will it take much longer? re: CTM down X-BeenThere: ctm-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CTM Announcements [moderated] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:38:23 -0000 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. > > >