From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 2 04:19:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA25886 for current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 04:19:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from Pkrw.tcn.net (Pkrw.tcn.net [199.166.4.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA25877 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 04:18:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (krw@localhost) by Pkrw.tcn.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00548; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:26:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:26:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, jkh@time.cdrom.COM, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS repository pushed off the FreeBSD CD distribution... In-Reply-To: <199703250156.TAA20506@nexgen.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Darned if I didn't suggest this last week and was told that this very thing had been implemented the day after I downloaded the CTM base delta! Check out the src-2.2-CTM-README file in the CTM directory. The new one. It explains how to start with CTM from the src distribution. I only hope they keep this up! ---- Ken On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > > > I always felt that a base CTM delta would be very valuable for a CD, > > too. After all, CTM is for use poor people who can't ftp a 70 MB > > file. > > Agreed. But wouldn't it be even simpler if the -RELEASE was sync'ed to a > CTM delta (might be already, would be nice if there was a release marker in > the CTM filename), and then all we'd need are .ctm_status files in the > appropriate places. Even cheaper than a 70M base delta. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > >