Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:44:17 -0600 (CST) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au Cc: c5666305@comp.polyu.edu.hk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk munging problem with current solved Message-ID: <199803190244.UAA08131@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <35106C23.64774CD9@dsto.defence.gov.au> (message from Matthew Thyer on Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:21:47 %2B1030) References: <199803171142.TAA07037@cssolar85.COMP.HKP.HK> <350E643D.A47CB903@camtech.net.au> <199803182240.QAA07391@detlev.UUCP> <35106C23.64774CD9@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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>> I noticed that it is possible to cvsup a current ctm tree from >> ctm.freebsd.org. I expect this to be either an alternative to using a >> base delta (for instance, now that you'd have to ftp nearly 100 >> deltas), or to allow you to resync a partially trashed source tree. >> However, this is missing .ctm-status, which would seem to be fairly >> important. > Alas there is no synchronisation between CTM and cvs. > Theoretically if you cvsupped at the same time as the person > who makes the CTM deltas and you created the .ctm_status > file yourself with the right number in it then you'd be right. > However if you cvsup 1 minute later a couple of files somewhere > in the tree may have been changed and then future CTM deltas > would fail to apply. > So no, you cannot use both CVS and CTM. It was my understanding that the ctm-src (or something like that) tag from ctm.freebsd.org would fetch a CTM sync'd tree. -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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