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Date:      Tue, 4 Aug 2009 07:53:11 +0200
From:      Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel-lucent.com.au>
Cc:        ctm-users@freebsd.org, Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com
Subject:   Re: Do you still want CTM?
Message-ID:  <20090804055311.GA20414@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090804031753.GP98247@pjdesk.au.alcatel-lucent.com>
References:  <4A77A0EE.3060602@missouri.edu> <20090804031753.GP98247@pjdesk.au.alcatel-lucent.com>

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On Tue, 04-Aug-2009 at 13:17:53 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2009-Aug-03 21:46:06 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote:
> >My question is this - are there people who still depend on CTM for their 
> >updates?  Or is it time to close down CTM?  Or is there someone else who 
> >wants to take it over?
> 
> I don't have CVSup access at work and currently rely on CTM delta
> emails.  I also use CTM (via FTP) at home because that was easy to
> setup and means my trees at home and work are synchronised.

Same here ;-)

> 
> I could switch to CVSup at home without too much hassle but loss of
> CTM would be a serious hassle at work - the easiest solution would

Exactly the same here. Additionally, I use a script which
applies the deltas and filters out changes and local
modifications. I am doing it this way since FreeBSD-2.1.5 ;-).

A few years ago, there was some disruption in the delta generation
and I had to use CVSup at home and carry stuff over at work
temporarily. It was a big hack and luckily delta generation was
restored. This showed me how much I loved CTM ;-).

If CTM went away the world would not end but I would miss
it heavily for sure.

Thanks a lot for all your efforts being put into CTM!

	-Andre

> probably be for me to setup something fairly similar to a CTM server
> at home and mail it to work.
> 
> As for formally taking over CTM, I don't think I'm in a position to
> do so but would appreciate some more details:
> - How much disk space is required?
> - How resource intensive is building the deltas?  If it's a dedicated
>   box, what CPU/RAM does it have?
> - What are the bandwidth requirements?
> - How are the deltas forwarded out to the mail and FTP servers?
> 
> -- 
> Peter Jeremy



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