From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 18 18:44:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20980 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:44:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20973 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (ppp62.wcc.net [208.6.232.62]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11900; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:40:22 -0600 (CST) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08131; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:44:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:44:17 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199803190244.UAA08131@detlev.UUCP> To: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au CC: c5666305@comp.polyu.edu.hk, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <35106C23.64774CD9@dsto.defence.gov.au> (message from Matthew Thyer on Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:21:47 +1030) Subject: Re: Disk munging problem with current solved From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199803171142.TAA07037@cssolar85.COMP.HKP.HK> <350E643D.A47CB903@camtech.net.au> <199803182240.QAA07391@detlev.UUCP> <35106C23.64774CD9@dsto.defence.gov.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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