From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 1 10:51:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tranq1.tranquility.net (tranq1.tranquility.net [206.156.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EBE14E16 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 10:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (stephen.tranquility.net [206.156.230.78]) by tranq1.tranquility.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA20263 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 12:51:45 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <386E4CCC.D934AE74@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:51:56 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obtaining CTM deltas References: <200001011753.SAA01269@gcs.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG MULLER Miklos wrote: > > Hello, > > i'm trying to use CTM and have the following (theoretical) > question: In the handbook there is a chapter about CTM, > which says: > > "18.3.2.3. Starting off with CTM for the first time > > ... > > However, since the trees are many tens of megabytes, you should prefer to > start from something already at hand. If you have a RELEASE CD, you can > copy or extract an initial source from it. This will save a significant > transfer of data. ". > > Ok i have a release 3.0 and a release 3.3. CD, i unpack all the sources, > say from the 3.3 release cd. > Then how do i figure out which will be my starting delta? > i can figure out the last modification time in the source tree > and use deltas from the next day, but i'm not convinced, that this > is the right way to do it. > > Comments? > I never could get this to work. I found a delta on the ftp site that has the word "Empty" in it, and started from there. (Make sure that the directory that you ctm into is empty before you start.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message