Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:33:50 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.Net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS repository pushed off the FreeBSD CD distribution... Message-ID: <199703270833.JAA07304@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:45:33 CST." <199703260245.UAA25308@nexgen.hiwaay.net>
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Hi, Reference:
> From: dkelly@hiwaay.net
>
> ...which brings up another question. I've occasionally wondered how to genera
- te one of these myself, wanting to roll my accumulated CTM's into an *Empty*
- or *A*. Finally settled on exploding my CTM's into a brand new directory, the
- n tar'ing that and deleting the accumulated CTM's.
I discussed this sort of thing with Poul-Henning maybe 6 months ago,
he pointed out (a) if it's a gzipped ctm archive rather than a tar.gz,
it takes up slightly less room (I confirmed this locally)
(b) the ctm archive has inbuilt md5's so is more resilient (than a tar
archive that might get damaged),
I may have his ideas slightly wrong, but whatever, he convinced me :-)
( Actually, being a died in the wool tar reactionary from way back,
(who can remember tar flags but not ctm flags)
I do roll local tars, but I don't regard them as `good as' ctm A files. )
Julian
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