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Date: 12 May 97 15:21:29 -0500
Subject: Re: 2.2-stable
From: "Richard Wackerbarth" <ctm@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@cs.rice.edu>
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On Mon, May 12, 1997 1:54 PM, Mark W. Krentel <mailto:krentel@cs.rice.edu>
wrote:
>2. Can I use cvsup to get a previous snapshot on the 2.2-stable
>track?  For example, on May 20, can I ask for src-all as of May 10?
>Is this possible with ctm?  I fetch the sources and rebuild only
>about once a month, so I'd prefer cvsup to ctm.

>From a practical point, from 2.2 (but probably not "-current") the two are
the same.
You always have the ability with ctm to decide when to apply the updates
and just how many of them you wish to apply.

This is true whether you have the updates delivered daily and simply
postpone their installation or retrieve the updates from an archive when
you decide that you want them.