From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 25 00:58:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16173 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16165 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:58:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA12650; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:57:37 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199810250757.JAA12650@gratis.grondar.za> To: Andrew Boothman cc: "Scot W. Hetzel" , "FreeBSD-Stable" Subject: Re: CTM Release Generation - (Re: Stable and CTM) In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:54:50 +0100." <3.0.5.32.19981024225450.007af190@ice.cream.org> References: <3.0.5.32.19981024225450.007af190@ice.cream.org> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:57:36 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Boothman wrote: > At 14:29 24/10/98 -0500, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > >The generation of the src-xR delta's are supposed > >to be generated manually after each release by either the CTM maintainer or > >the Release Engineer. > > So these deltas are only created at every release instead of every 100 > deltas like the xEmpty's? In theory. In practice we do not have the resources. (This can easily change). > Would it not be better to create an xR 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. > By only creating xR deltas during the release of another > version it means that you can only update from release to release and > nothing in between. True. Who pays for the disk to generate these? > >Could somebody please create these Release Deltas, so that this question > >never comes up on the list again. > > Whoops. Do I detect that this has come up on the list before? :-) Yup. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message