Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 08:05:15 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Andrew Reilly <reilly@zeta.org.au> Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-stable where to start? Message-ID: <19970911080515.42812@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199709102252.IAA02232@gurney.reilly.home>; from Andrew Reilly on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 08:52:43AM %2B1000 References: <19970910074405.20546@keltia.freenix.fr> <199709102252.IAA02232@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 08:52:43AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On 10 Sep, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > According to Burkard Meyendriesch:
> >> from src-2.2.0400xEmpty til now (src-2.2.0425.gz). But I don't know what
> >> ist the correct starting point from my installed release 2.2.1; what is
> >> the first delta I have to apply?
> >
> > Don't bother yourself with finding this. Just start from src-2.2.0400xEmpty
> > (which is a full source tree) and then apply all from 400 to 425.
>
> I had reason to wish that this had been writ large somewhere, recently.
> I first downloaded 2.2.1, (with src, of course) then 2.2.2, and _then_
> found I had to download another 34+Megs for src-2.2.0400xEmpty, to get
> going with CTM. All at around 1k/second (the route from here to the CTM
> mirror at ftp.au.freebsd.org (also in Sydney) involves 11 hops, would
> you believe. It's almost faster to go straight to San Francisco.)
>
> Grrr...
You can buy a CD-Rom, ask a friend to get them via tape, you are
free to get the CVS repository (on FreeBSD SNAPshot CD's) and
to use cvsup then to mirror the cvs repository or only the src tree.
There are many possibilities ... No need for a Grrrr ;-)
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