From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 30 06:50:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA26985 for current-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 06:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-4-168.mu.de.ibm.net [139.92.4.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA26969; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 06:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA07304; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:33:51 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199703270833.JAA07304@vector.jhs.no_domain> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS repository pushed off the FreeBSD CD distribution... From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Email: jhs@freebsd.org, Fallback: jhs@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de X-Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. X-Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available X-Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany X-Tel: Phone +49.89.268616, Fax +49.89.2608126, Data +49.89.26023276 X-Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:45:33 CST." <199703260245.UAA25308@nexgen.hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:33:50 +0100 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/