From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 11 00:28:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B413329 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clbuisson@orange.fr) Received: from smtp.smtpout.orange.fr (smtp12.smtpout.orange.fr [80.12.242.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6ED78FC12 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([90.55.44.35]) by mwinf5d23 with ME id 9cU51k00K0lXwlE03cU6mi; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:28:06 +0200 Message-ID: <50761295.6010209@orange.fr> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:28:05 +0200 From: Claude Buisson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.7) Gecko/20120831 Thunderbird/10.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glen Barber Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots References: <50717D35.7040106@affle.com> <1349727367645-5750424.post@n5.nabble.com> <50754E24.4040903@orange.fr> <1349873186577-5750838.post@n5.nabble.com> <5075AA96.6050101@orange.fr> <20121010234056.GI10429@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <20121010234056.GI10429@glenbarber.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:28:08 -0000 On 10/11/2012 01:40, Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:04:22PM +0200, Claude Buisson wrote: >>> And for the record, they are NOT official snapshots. >> >> I know, but: >> >> - there are no more "official snapshots" on freebsd.org > > This is a problem, and for what it is worth (and as Mark mentioned in a > previous reply), the end goal is "official" snapshots. > >> - anybody enquiring about it on the lists is directed to allbsd.org > > For clarification purposes, my goal is _not_ to compete with allbsd.org > (in case anyone sees it that way), but to provide an alternative > location for snapshots. > >> - the recently created snapshots.glenbarber.us is much more limited > > May I ask what it is that is limiting? If there is some limitation, I > certainly will do what I can to address it. > > Right now, the limitations I am already aware of are: > > - Lack of varying ranges of dates of snapshots to download. This is > really due to lack of space on the machine these snapshots are > hosted to hold much more than 3 days of snapshots. > > - Lack of snapshots for the stable/8 branch. I'm working on this, and > differences (infrastructurally) in how the release builds work > between stable/9 and stable/8 are trickier than I originally > anticipated to work around. I have local patches to the release > build script in -CURRENT that I have been testing to make "legacy" > release builds do the right thing, and have had some success with my > changes, but I am not yet comfortable committing them just yet. > Having said that, I will not upload snapshot images that I am not > sure are okay to use. > You said it, I have nothing to add. > As mentioned in my original email, I certainly do welcome feedback. I > certainly will do what I can to address any issues and/or limitations. > Do not misinterpret my mail: I really think that your work is useful. And unofficial snapshots are always better than noexistent official ones. > Glen > Claude Buisson