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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:20:00 +0000
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@sour.cream.org>
Subject: Re: CTM Release Generation - (Re: Stable and CTM)
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At 09:57 25/10/98 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: 
>> Would it not be better to create an xR<CurrentRelease> delta at the same
>> time as the xEmpty delta then you could upgrade to the -stable code easily
>> by downloading the deltas that then come afterwards as well?
>
>Disk space is a problem.

OK. As a compromise you could possibly only keep the most recent xR delta,
and delete the previous one. I realise that this goes against how the CTM
system currently works, but it is a good way to get around the disk space
problem.
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