Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:51:39 -0500 From: "Isaac (.ike) Levy" <ike@blackskyresearch.net> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> Cc: ctm-users@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CTM index on servers Message-ID: <1359467522-7158796.08576218.fr0TDpc0p018870@rs149.luxsci.com> In-Reply-To: <51071C26.2030703@missouri.edu> References: <1359401402-8482577.26305758.fr0SJTdBX014869@rs149.luxsci.com> <51071C26.2030703@missouri.edu>
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On Jan 28, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > On 01/28/2013 01:29 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote: >> Hi Stephen, ctm-users, >> >> New to this list, coming from a lively thread on freebsd-stable@ >> >> For me and a lot of admins/users, fetching sources just got a lot harder for a *lot* of admins/users. A page was raised to try to help cull facts out of all the confusing details, here: >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/UsersFetchingSource >> >> At this point the page may be more confusing itself :) >> >> -- >> Enter: CTM >> >> I'm delighted to learn about ctm(1) usage, and quite interested in using it to fetch REL and RELENG sources, and keep it up to date (to redistribute internally across a cluster of servers). >> >> I know a *ton* of *BSD admins who love c[v]sup, but I don't know any who use ctm(1) any more, so I'm sorry if my questions are naive. >> >> On Jan 28, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >>>> On the FTP server, is there an index of which CTM delta files are on the FTP server? I'd like to automate fetching just the new deltas... >>>> >>>> If there was perhaps 1 file with a consistent name, I could fetch that on a nightly basis and fetch the other CTM files. >>> >>> I can easily put in something like this. Maybe the output of ls in each directory? > > Look in http://web.missouri.edu/~stephen/CTM and the subdirectories, and > tell me if you like the way I implemented INDEX. Absolutely spectacular, I started using it to hack out a basic 'ctmup' in sh last night. Thank you so much! I'll post back to list as soon as I have it rough/working, (this week/weekend). Best, .ike
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