Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:28:05 +0200 From: Claude Buisson <clbuisson@orange.fr> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots Message-ID: <50761295.6010209@orange.fr> In-Reply-To: <20121010234056.GI10429@glenbarber.us> 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>
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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
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