From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 14:13:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A929137B422 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7ULDeW01093; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:13:40 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Shipley, Stephen T" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Older release availability Message-ID: <20000830141339.W18862@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <390A24E40625D311970E00508B08EAC9A2307B@jaxp-exch-012.aetna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <390A24E40625D311970E00508B08EAC9A2307B@jaxp-exch-012.aetna.com>; from ShipleyST@aetna.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:09:32PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Shipley, Stephen T [000830 14:09] wrote: > Can you provide me with copies of previous system releases? In doing a > cursory check of the releases since 1.0, I didn't find the actual source > files from most of the ftp sites. > > What I'm getting at is this, If it were required to replicate an OS > environment level I was working on 1995 for some engineering project(some > exact FreeBSD release date for instance), could I rebuild that release I had > from your ftp sources or sites? In using the Concurrent Version System (CVS) > wouldn't I be destroying the engineering design of my own system by using > CVS? > > I would think the liabilities would be difficult to substantiate if a > business transaction or engineering design failed due to a fault? I'm just > interested in knowing how business continuation operates within the > framework of CVS. Uh, CVS allows one to check out older copies of the source tree based on date, 'tag' and specific file revisions. I don't see any problems with it, perhaps if you could tone down the message and get to your point I could answer your question. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message